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- Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other groups.…
- Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such facts as will…
- The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt several times. This…
- The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in science, is to…
- Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being concerned with particular…
- It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical…
- In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compounded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that from the protozoa…
- The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard knowledge from a…
- Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the fact…
- Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where pure thought can…
- The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the…
- At all times, except when a monarch could enforce his will, war has been facilitated by the fact that vigorous males, confident of victory, enjoyed…
- The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based upon the view…
- Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that…
- Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone
- When you are studying any matter or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only: what are the facts, and what is the truth that the facts…
- It can be shown that a mathematical web of some kind can be woven about any universe containing several objects. The fact that our universe…
- To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is…
- All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.
- The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have…
- The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
- We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
- The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than…
- The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
- A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
- Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a… — Rowan Atkinson
- I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I… — David Attenborough
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — Wystan Hugh Auden