The belief in creation as the background of empiricomathematical [sic] science - that seems strange. Yet the ways of thought, human thought,… — Alexandre Koyre Copy Share Image
The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa,… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme… — Eugene Field Copy Share Image
The Christian cannot be satisfied so long as any human activity is either opposed to Christianity or out of connection with Christianity.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[One task of intellectuals is] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication. — Edward Said Copy Share Image
The velocity of light occupies an extraordinary place in modern physics. It is lèse-majesté to make any criticism of the velocity of… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
“If we use the past only to creature heroes for present purposes, we will never understand the richness of human thought or… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The history of human thought recalls the swinging of a pendulum which takes centuries to swing. After a long period of slumber… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
One must not consider a language as a product dead, and formed but once; it is an animate being, and ever creative.… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
It is your organized religions that have made it clear through their most sacred scriptures that cruelty and killing is an acceptable… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Just as a pool of water cannot reflect the sky overhead when it is restless and disturbed, so we can never get… — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
If you want to write something completely unique, you will probably fail or at best write something without redeeming value. The mind… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
Sartre is one example of someone who does just this. Every text is, after all, a human document and whatever Kierkegaard thought… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
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For science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Some god or Weltgeist has been making a movie out of us for the past six thousand years, and now we have… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
As man reaches out toward the twenty-first century, he will learn to be suspicious of all ideas that are not formulated so… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in the far-reaching theories that… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
Wikipedia took the idea of peer review and applied it to volunteers on a global scale, becoming the most important English reference… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
The branches of mathematics are as various as the sciences to which they belong, and each subject of physical enquiry has its… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
Today's Gypsies, who have lived in Prague for only two generations, light a ritual fire wherever they work, a nomads' fire crackling… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
“If non-linear leaps in intelligence and ability are possible, why haven't these effects been observed in our schools? I believe the answer… — John Mighton Copy Share Image
The real cause of the great upheavals which precede changes of civilisations, such as the fall of the Roman Empire and the… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The Christian religion seems to have fulfilled its great biological purpose, in so far as we are able to judge. It has… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The Phenomenon of Man stands square in the tradition of Naturphilosophie, a philosophical indoor pastime of German origin which does not seem… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered; and the… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
“Scholars whose conclusions are based on their reasoning, without recourse to experience, are unable to make definite statements about the makeup of… — Otto Von Guericke Copy Share Image
For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Two radical ideas have been introduced into human thought. One of them is that energy and matter are pretty much the same… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
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The lessons of religious toleration - a toleration which recognizes complete liberty of human thought, liberty of conscience - is one which,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
By conversing with the mighty dead, we imbibe sentiment with knowledge. We become strongly attached to those who can no longer either… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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