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- Recent research shows that many children who do not have enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn. Children don't have…
- At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes-an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they…
- There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered…
- Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error.…
- Even Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein made serious mistakes. But the scientific enterprise arranges things so that teamwork prevails:…
- The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have…
- The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites…
- We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands. The loom of time and space works the most astonishing transformations of…
- We are, in the most profound sense, children of the Cosmos.
- We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
- Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of…
- What is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us…
- The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place…
- Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern…
- The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what we know. Recently, we've waded…
- Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
- The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough…
- Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better…
- For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took…
- When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster