Faculty Quotes

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Part of what makes a language 'alive' is its constant evolution. I would hate to think Britain would ever emulate France, where they actually have… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which… — Thomas Jefferson
Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence.… — Christopher Hitchens
All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had… — Mikhail Bakunin
Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties when… — James Clerk Maxwell
What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to… — Benjamin Disraeli
Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Patience is, therefore, the faculty of enduring a painful sensation, and yet looking confidently and steadily to the period when that sensation shall cease. — William Pinnock
We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently wait for, but… — John Ambrose Fleming
But since the brain, as well as the cerebellum, is composed of many parts, variously figured, it is possible, that nature, which never works in… — Georg Prochaska
[The] humanization of mathematical teaching, the bringing of the matter and the spirit of mathematics to bear not merely upon certain fragmentary faculties of the… — Cassius Jackson Keyser
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently ... It is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL which we see not, which exists not… — Ada Lovelace
It is relatively unusual that a physical scientist is truly an atheist. Why is this true? Some point to the anthropic constraints, the remarkable fine… — Henry F. Schaefer, III
If you believe in evolution and naturalism then you have a reason not to think your faculties are reliable. — Alvin Plantinga
The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by… — Henry Thomas Buckle
There is no difference between the pain of humans and the pain of other living beings, since the love and tenderness of the mother for… — Maimonides
Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from… — Henry David Thoreau
[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.... — Immanuel Kant
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. — Henri Bergson

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