#sifi

The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#falsification #honesty #integrity #lies #scholars

For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status. ↗

— Kenneth Burke

#classification #continuity #corresponding #degree #different

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives. ↗

— Vincent Canby

#experience #feeling #fiction #good #importance

The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#best #diversification #funds #mutual #mutual funds

EVEN RANDOMNESS IS WITHIN A SET OF PARAMETERS; THRESHOLDS... ↗

— Clyde Dsouza

#posthumanism #sifi #transhumanism #intelligence

Our present nuclear fusion reactors are classified by the methods used to support the nuclear fusion reaction, which takes place at a temperature much hotter than the surface of the Sun. ↗

— Wilson Greatbatch

#fusion #hotter #methods #much #nuclear

I think anybody in our - in the, in the national security apparatus has, has got to take full cognizance of their responsibility for the safeguarding of classified information. ↗

— Michael Mullen

#apparatus #classified #classified information #full #got

Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective. ↗

— Criss Jami

#amount #classification #classify #context #creativity

In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "woman is a divine creature," we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that "a woman is as good as a man," without always pausing to think what exactly we mean by that. What, I feel, we ought to mean is something so obvious that it is apt to escape attention altogether, viz: (...) that a woman is just as much an ordinary human being as a man, with the same individual preferences, and with just as much right to the tastes and preferences of an individual. What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#clichés #dignity #discrimination #double-standards #empowerment

To a Soviet person, used to the nationality policy of the USSR, all the mistakes of the American government's Indian policy are evident from the first glance. The mistakes are, of course, intentional. The fact of the matter is that in Indian schools, class is conducted exclusively in English. There is no written form of any Indian language at all. It's true that every Indian tribe has its own language, but this doesn't change anything. If there were any desire to do so, the many American specialists who have fallen in love with Indian culture could create Indian written languages in a short time. But imperialism remains imperialism. ↗

— Ilya Ilf

#change