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About 85 per cent of my "thinking" time was spent getting into a position to think, to make a decision, to learn something I needed… — J. C. R. Licklider
Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides. — Ruth Hubbard
A Cannibal is a person who walks into a restaurant and orders a waiter. — Morey Amsterdam
To appeal to contemporary man to revert, in this twentieth century, to a pagan-like nature worship in order to restrain technology from further encroachment and… — Norman Lamm
The tendency of all strong governments has always been to suppress liberty, partly in order to ease the processes of rule, partly from sheer disbelief… — Unknown Author
To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover… — Michel Foucault
The valuable properties of this cement depend in a great measure on the mode of preparing it for use. The mixing should therefore be conducted… — Canvass White
We are not to suppose, that there is any violent exertion of power, such as is required in order to produce a great event in… — James Hutton
In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order to achieve preservation and recognition,… — Earnest Hooton
We seem to be heading for a state of affairs in which the determination of whether or not Doomsday has arrived will be made either… — Herbert York
I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. 'Orders of merit,' said he, 'were the… — John Joseph Griffin
In order to turn natural history into a true science, one would have to devote oneself to investigations capable of telling us not the particular… — Unknown Author
The sciences have sworn among themselves an inviolable partnership; it is almost impossible to separate them, for they would rather suffer than be torn apart;… — Marin Mersenne
The theory of the earth is the science which describes and explains changes that the terrestrial globe has undergone from its beginning until today, and… — Unknown Author
[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating inessentials. They are… — William Lawrence Bragg
[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
This I say, because God showed me somewhat of his truth, in order that I might know what man is without him; that is, when… — Catherine of Genoa
It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive a view of… — Paul Feyerabend
The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow… — Ada Lovelace
This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in its… — Unknown Author
It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all, it must be improved in… — Joseph Murray
The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine. — Unknown Author
Science, with its experiments and logic, tries to understand the order or structure of the universe. Religion, with its theological inspiration and reflection, tries to… — Charles Hard Townes
I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery… — Allan Sandage
According to the bible, Heaven is completely perfect and Hell is completely evil. In Heaven, in order to keep everything completely perfect, everyone in it… — Unknown Author

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