We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born - a shifting of culture, science, society and institutions enormously greater than the world has ever experienced. Ahead, the possibility of regeneration of individuality, liberty, community and ethics such as the world has never known, and a harmony with nature, with one another and with the divine intelligence such as the world has always dreamed.
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The instinct to command others, in its primitive essence, is a carnivorous, altogether bestial and savage instinct. Under the influence of the mental development of man, it takes on a somewhat more ideal form and becomes somewhat ennobled, presenting itself as the instrument of reason and the devoted servant of that abstraction, or political fiction, which is called the public good. But in its essence it remains just as baneful, and it becomes even more so when, with the application of science, it extends its scope and intensifies the power of its action. If there is a devil in history, it is this power principle.
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Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.
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Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.
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For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal. It does not follow that every item which we confidently accept as physical knowledge has actually been certified by the Court our confidence is that it would be certified by the Court if it were submitted. But it does follow that every item of physical knowledge is of a form which might be submitted to the Court. It must be such that we can specify (although it may be impracticable to carry out) an observational procedure which would decide whether it is true or not. Clearly a statement cannot be tested by observation unless it is an assertion about the results of observation. Every item of physical knowledge must therefore be an assertion of what has been or would be the result of carrying out a specified observational procedure.
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Reality is a crutch for people who cannot deal with Science Fiction.
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In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.
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Whereas in art nothing worth doing can be done without genius, in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.
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Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week.
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The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.
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Science Fiction Double Feature. Doctor X will build a creature.
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In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.
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All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
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Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
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The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science?
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Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus.
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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
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But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and of our end is, to say the least, unsatisfactory. To the question, How did it all begin, science answers, Probably by an accident. To the question, How will it all end, science answers, Probably by an accident. And to many people, the accidental life is not worth living. Moreover, the science-god has no answer to the question, Why are we here? And, to the question, What moral instructions do you give us, the science-god maintains silence.
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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
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