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Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice. — Allan Bloom
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of… — Frederic Bastiat
Freedom... refer[s] to a social relationship among people-namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced whenever a decision… — Thomas Sowell
Scientific research was much like prospecting: you went out and you hunted, armed with your maps and instruments, but in the ened your preparations did… — Michael Crichton
The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle. — Leonard Bernstein
It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt… — Edmund Burke
Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.… — James Madison
Your body is merely a machine made to express the thoughts that flow through you and nothing more. It is but an instrument for you… — Walter Russell
Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands… — Leo Baekeland
The chemists work with inaccurate and poor measuring services, but they employ very good materials. The physicists, on the other hand, use excellent methods and… — Wolfgang Ostwald
We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not… — David Sarnoff
I have accumulated a wealth of knowledge in innumerable spheres and enjoyed it as an always ready instrument for exercising the mind and penetrating further… — Richard Goldschmidt
But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of… — Arthur Balfour
Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. — Humphry Davy
O telescope, instrument of knowledge, more precious than any sceptre. — Johannes Kepler
To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge. — Isaac Asimov
While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the… — Edward Jenner
Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose,… — Henri Poincare
Men can construct a science with very few instruments, or with very plain instruments; but no one on earth could construct a science with unreliable… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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