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- Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they…
- [Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing,…
- When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many different…
- A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics…
- Some racists still reject the plain testimony written in the DNA that all the races are not only human but nearly indistinguishable. . . .
- 'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If the opinion is…
- Scientists can routinely predict a solar eclipse, to the minute, a millennium in advance. You can go to the witch doctor to lift the spell…
- What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is…
- Science is not perfect. It's often misused; it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to everything:…
- The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our…
- The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. Information distilled over…
- The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.
- For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
- Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
- 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…
- You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so…
- Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want people to believe in God so they'll obey the…
- Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel small. But if…
- Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A…
- The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with…
- Science is only a Latin word for knowledge
- Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe…
- Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for responsible citizenship. He argued that the cost of education is trivial compared…
- She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only…
- The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's…
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle