Taken over the centuries, scientific ideas have exerted a force on our civilization fully as great as the more tangible practical applications… — I. Bernard Cohen Copy Share Image
In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave… — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count? — John Piper Copy Share Image
The Bible has the answers to our everyday life. Many times people don't realize how practical it is. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science,… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Progress is always the product of fresh thinking, and much of it thinking which to practical men bears the semblance of dreaming. — Robert Gordon Sproul Copy Share Image
Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I remain totally convinced that when children are young, however busy we may be with the practical duties inside the home, themost… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Non-violence means dialogue, using our language, the human language. Dialogue means compromise; respecting each other’s rights; in the spirit of reconciliation there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whenever I am embraced by land and seascape I draw ideas for new sculptures; new forms to touch and walk around, new… — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
If you are a woman and you bought this book for practical tips on how to make it in a male-dominated workplace,… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless,… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Philosophy, certainly, is some account of truths the fragments and very insignificant parts of which man will practice in this workshop; truths… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The first and most practical step in getting what one wants in this world is wanting it. One would think that the… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
Our common stock of words embodies all the distinctions men have found worth drawing, and the connexions they have found worth marketing,… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
This is the first nation that organized government on the basis of universal liberty with a free Church and a free State.… — Oscar Straus Copy Share Image
Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we’re simultaneously cowardly and arrogant.… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
There are certain scenes in the edit you're playing with it and certain scenes don't put back together the way you imagined.… — Oliver Parker Copy Share Image
How we shall earn our bread is a grave question; yet it is a sweet and inviting question. Let us not shirk… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The response of the men who were introduced into polygamy between 1841 and 1846 was anything but enthusiastic. The same was true… — Leonard J. Arrington Copy Share Image
The US has developed two coordinate governing classes: the one, called 'business,' building cities, manufacturing and distributing goods, and holding complete and… — Thurman Arnold Copy Share Image
Let us strive for personal, practical integrity in every endeavor, regardless of how mundane or inconsequential it may seem. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Because God loves us, he gives us practical teaching and boundaries to protect our hearts. The whole thing is one big expression… — Jennifer Rothschild Copy Share Image
It gave her a feeling of her own power, to make something practical and beautiful just by using her own skill and… — Kate Jacobs Copy Share Image
One should believe only what can be chosen to be true or just. Irrational (or unjustified) beliefs should be avoided because they… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift-a practical map for the perennial… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
The common willing of a common world is an eminently practical undertaking and not in the least abstract. — Daniel Kemmis Copy Share Image
Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies. — Koichi Tanaka Copy Share Image
We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
I'm not hugely technical with things, but I guess that the thing I use most is my iPhone, on a practical level. — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
One of the biggest changes for me on a practical level of shooting the film was having a second unit. — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
