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Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay for the effort… — Charles Tilly
It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible. — Ayn Rand
Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything. He knows his death is… — Carlos Castaneda
Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The brain does not make the man; the man makes the brain. — Wallace D. Wattles
It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There are more than… — Lewis Thomas
I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far far away from the boundaries of… — Johannes Kepler
If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This is… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for truth. — Karl Popper
We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it is… — Johannes Kepler
For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Now, it's true that no single event makes… — Barack Obama
If, in the course of a thousand or two thousand years, science arrives at the necessity of renewing its points of view, that will not… — Adolf Hitler
Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe… — Lise Meitner
The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the… — William Osler
The constancy of the internal environment is the condition for free and independent life: the mechanism that makes it possible is that which assured the… — Claude Bernard
[For] men to whom nothing seems great but reason ... nature ... is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its ways seems to… — Charles Sanders Peirce
The old scientific ideal of episteme - of absolutely certain, demonstrable knowledge - has proved to be an idol. The demand for scientific objectivity makes… — Karl Popper
There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always… — Albert Einstein
It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with other events, usually… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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