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And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

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The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious.
The conclusion forced upon me in the course of a life devoted to natural science is that the universe as it is…
It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance.
In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols…
If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are the result…
Haldane was engaged in discussion with an eminent theologian. "What inference," asked the latter, "might one draw about the nature of God…
Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or…
I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day.…
Until politics are a branch of science, we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts…
The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the expression "Vital…
I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't…
[Children] are taught that it is a virtue to accept statements without adequate evidence, which leaves them a prey to quacks of…

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That is why our masters in Washington are so anxious to disarm us. They are not afraid of criminals. They are afraid… — Jeff Cooper
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All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters. — Jupiter Hammon
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It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by… — Baltasar Gracian
We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being… — Jupiter Hammon
And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art. — John B. S. Haldane
What assurance have we that our masters will or can keep the promise which induced us to sell ourselves? Let us not… — C.S. Lewis
I put my hand out and wiped the vomit from his lips, and cooed soothing words to him. It squeezed my heart… — Aravind Adiga
Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing? — Aravind Adiga
We never change. Neither our socks nor our masters nor our opinions, or we're so slow about it that it's no use.… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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