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The sense that the meaning of the universe had evaporated was what seemed to escape those who welcomed Darwin as a benefactor of mankind. Nietzsche… — R. J. Hollingdale
We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind has put into nature.… — Arthur Eddington
Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in… — Unknown Author
A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes — Unknown Author
Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust of that which… — Henry De la Beche
With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low antiquity of the… — William Buckland
[The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as a creative art,… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it… — Grove Karl Gilbert
The question whether atoms exist or not... belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of atoms is an… — August Kekule
The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that accounts for the… — Douglas J. Futuyma
Whereas students minds used to be the chief concern of colleges and universities, it is now more their bank accounts (more accurately, that of their… — George Leef
Their pupils and their little charges are not nourished and fed by what they learn: the learning is passed from hand to hand with only… — Michel de Montaigne
Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and believe about it.… — Michael Dummett
We do not live in several different, or even two different, worlds, a mental world and a physical world, a scientific world and a world… — John Searle
If you are training properly, you should progress steadily. This doesn't necessarily mean a personal best every time you race ... Each training session should… — Grete Waitz
There is something in such laws that takes the breath away. They are not discoveries or inventions of the human mind, but exist independently of… — M.C. Escher
As we crossed the Malakand Pass I saw a young girl selling oranges. She was scratching marks on a piece of paper with a pencil… — Malala Yousafzai
Today, it is imperative to end this hysteria, to refute the rhetoric of the Cold War and to accept the obvious fact: Russia is an… — Vladimir Putin
The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the queen of the… — Carl Gustav Hempel
Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve… — Stephen Jay Gould
When students of other sciences ask us what is now currently believed about the origin of species, we have no clear answer to give. Faith… — William Bateson
...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up concluding that much… — Toby Lester
Let a man fear, above all, me, his God, and so much the gentler will he become toward my creatures and animals, on whom, on… — Bridget of Sweden
Around the world, we can see the results of exploitation which destroys much without taking future generations into account. Today, all men have a duty… — Pope John Paul II

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