#science

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. ↗

— David Hume

#hitherto #human #human nature #man #most

The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species, genera, families, or whatever, has been, and continues to be, a pernicious illusion. ↗

— Gareth J. Nelson

#darwin #darwinism #evolution #fossil-record #fossils

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time. ↗

— William Hurt

#i #junkie #long #long time #science

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely! ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#archetypes #changed #completely #decades #even

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#indeed #kind #nasty #only #position

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach. ↗

— Dean Inge

#constructed #does #follow #learn #men

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#best #best time #conscience #degeneration #escape

Courage without conscience is a wild beast. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#conscience #courage #wild #wild beast #without

Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree. ↗

— Lee Greenwood

#commanded #conscience #deceitful #disagree #enough

As a general rule, you won't find the love of your life while you're on your knees under a table." -- Helios Dayspring ↗

— Belinda McBride

#science-fiction #life