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But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our… — Alan Watts
Evolution goes beyond what went before, but because it must embrace what went before, then its very nature is to transcend and include and thus… — Ken Wilber
We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things… — R. Buckminster Fuller
[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of… — Erwin Schrodinger
The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in the social sphere… — Florence Nightingale
We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers are finite, it… — Blaise Pascal
If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you… — Tom Stoppard
The dignity of the human person is a transcendent value, always recognized as such by those who sincerely search for the truth. Indeed, the whole… — Pope John Paul II
Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when read; and geology… — Hugh Miller
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions,… — Francis Bacon
Our confused wish finds expression in the confused question as to the nature of force and electricity. But the answer which we want is not… — Heinrich Hertz
Positivism stands or falls with the principle of scientism, that is that the meaning of knowledge is defined by what the sciences do and can… — Jurgen Habermas
Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in this; that the increase of… — Charles Babbage
The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior of particles but… — Werner Heisenberg
The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other attempts, to explain… — Louis Agassiz
One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want. — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst themselves. This is disillusioning for… — Isaac Asimov
Thus science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths; neither with the collection of observations, nor with the invention of experiments, but… — Karl Popper
Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective image of the… — James Clerk Maxwell

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