#scienc

We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

#everyday #human #human relations #intervention #none

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. ↗

— Thomas Kuhn

#changes #historian #itself #may #paradigms

If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands. ↗

— Polykarp Kusch

#brought #discredit #end #gifts #hands

...this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#history #religion #science #similarity #statement

I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#healthiest #i #i think #prisoner #think

There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for the origin of the world, life and humans. Science now gives us increasingly complete explanations for those big three. ↗

— J. Anderson Thomson Jr.

#atheism #atheist #biology #cosmology #guessing

What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#after #calls #conscience #follows #his

I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#book #chance #chick #fantasy #fiction

[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#democracy-fascism #democracy-freedom #democracy-voting #democrats #elections

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. ↗

— John Ruskin

#demonstrations #facts #impressions #science #substitute