Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain this similarity of pattern in members of the same class, by utility… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence. — Michael J. Saylor Copy Share Image
Simperium seems like a genuine utility for our own apps, and for other people as a service. And Simplenote, as a product,… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
“President Obama missed a golden opportunity at the dangerous Desoto Solar Farm to reform the utility and solar power industries into much… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I trust in Nature for the stable laws Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant And Autumn garner to the end of… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Concerning the utility of Rhetoric, it is to be observed that it divides itself into two; first, whether Oratorical skill be, on… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a perfect object… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. But we have seen that it is one of the lies of the serious… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
To treat programming scientifically, it must be possible to specify the required properties of programs precisely. Formality is certainly not an end… — Jim Horning Copy Share Image
Trying to gin up political violence for its electoral utility is - I think inarguably what we're seeing here. And I know… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Let me say this before rain becomes a utility that they can plan and distribute for money. By "they" I mean the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Things in which we do not take joy are either a burden upon our minds to be got rid of at any… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The technology is available to us today to begin the transition to 100 percent renewable energy. What is keeping us from making… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set from a… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all,… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
In that, we agreed with Andrew Carnegie, who said that huge fortunes that flow in large part from society should in large… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Most people, even in simple risky situations, don't behave the way the theory of utility would have them behave. — Howard Raiffa Copy Share Image
“You know that when a group of utility workers are withholding their customer service identification cards, they are likely engaging in some… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“[T]he scale of a man's evil is not entirely to be measured by its practical consequences. Men commit evil within the scope… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
We know the utility of prayer from the efforts of the wicked spirits to distract us during the divine office; and we… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social… — Karl Lehmann Copy Share Image
The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The assumption that individuals act objectively in accordance with purely mathematical dictates to maximize their gain or utility cannot be sustained by… — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
“The USA is corrupt in many areas with law enforcement and utility companies being two of those.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
We need a new law that owners of SUVs (Sport Utility Vehicles) are automatically in the military reserve. Then they can go… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
It is only by being exchanged that the products of labor acquire a socially uniform objectivity as values, which is distinct from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can't ever forget that the Internet now is just a staid utility. The exciting platforms are software applications that are very,… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Years ago I used to commiserate with all people who suffered. Now I commiserate only with those who suffer in ignorance, who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able… — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
It is the peculiar beauty of this method, gentlemen, and one which endears it to the really scientific mind, that under no… — Henry John Stephen Smith Copy Share Image