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If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be, that mathematics has… — Cassius Jackson Keyser
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
Nothing that you do in science is guaranteed to result in benefits for mankind. Any discovery, I believe, is morally neutral and it can be… — Unknown Author
This was what the universities were turning out nowadays. The science-is-a-sacred-cow boys. People who believe you could pour mankind into a test-tube and titrate it,… — Frank Robinson
[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social order should rest only on… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for the mariner's guidance… — Richard Owen
It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription. — Malcolm Potts
This hideous doctrine of eternal torment after death has probably caused more terror and misery, more cruelty and more violation of natural human sympathy, than… — Margaret E. Knight
It should not be strange that the values cherished by all the three major religions are the same, since they originate from a common source.… — King Hussein I
If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the… — James A. Garfield
By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior. — Charles Caleb Colton
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to… — Albert Einstein
The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these… — Plutarch
...one can hardly deny that mankind has a common store of thoughts which is transmitted from one generation to another. — Gottlob Frege
There is no devil in the universe except mankind's own inharmonious thoughts & feelings, both individual and enmass. — St. Germain
In his (Christ's) surrender on the cross all the pain and agony of mankind was concentrated at a single point, and passed through from death… — Bede Griffiths
All great musical composers have been connected, consciously or unconsciously, with this source of music-a fact that enabled them to become masters of their art.… — Corinne Heline
The Eucharist is the full realization of the worship which humanity owes to God, and it cannot be compared to any other religious experience.... The… — Pope John Paul II
You also realize, Venerable Brothers, that the Eucharist is reserved in churches or oratories to serve as the spiritual center of a religious community or… — Pope Paul VI
We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread… — John Ruskin
... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of… — Alfred Tarski
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality. — Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind. — John Tillotson
The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is… — George William Curtis
Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who… — Samuel Johnson

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