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The researchers found that nearly every change they made was followed by a temporary uptick in performance, even when it involved simply undoing a previous change. They concluded that the increases in worker productivity were not due to better lighting or better pay or longer breaks per se. They were just temporary improvements caused by a change in routine. ↗

— Hal Herzog

#psychology #science #change

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#itself #made #most #science #scientists

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness. ↗

— Norman O. Brown

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The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all. ↗

— Olympia Brown

#connected #dependent #each #explained #few

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it? ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#good #religion #science #inspirational

Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value the may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#science #scientific-theory #inspirational

But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity of the damned,' whereas Dr P. was not fighting, did not know what was lost. But who was more tragic, or who was more damned -- the man who knew it, or the man who did not? ↗

— Oliver Sacks

#science #inspirational

In God's eyes, walking on water is no more miraculous than the ability of hemoglobin to bond with oxygen inside a red blood corpuscle. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#inspirational #science #spiritual #inspirational

We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost. ↗

— Barack Obama

#politics #science #inspirational

We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or the unseen world, but directly from life. ↗

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

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