Enemy Quote by Eoin Colfer Download Open image “Scientists are the enemies of tradition , and tradition own all the prisons. - Victor Vigny” — Eoin Colfer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Enemy Prison Science Scientist Tradition
“The tradition that refuses to entertain doubt, or remains impervious to new thoughts and ideas, becomes a prison rather than a sustaining life force.” — Manju Kapur Copy Share Image
Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even heard - its profounder message: the defining of a new and unique source of truth, and the demand for a thorough revision of ethical premises, for a complete break with the animist tradition, the definitive abandonment of the… — Jacques Monod Copy Share
“We have been warned frequently about the dangers of science without ethics, but history without ethics poses a similar threat. Too often are events… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Science is no inexorable march to truth, mediated by the collection of objective information and the destruction of ancient superstition. Scientists, as ordinary human… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“What is there in the precepts of science that keeps a scientist from doing evil?” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“You will find that most prisons are forged in someone’s own mind. And they invariably possess the key to their release if they could… — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
“Prisons are built to break men, and when men are broken society has consummated its revenge” — Jan Valtin Copy Share Image
By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as evil in the world of science. There are only those who discover and are remembered, and those who… — S.C. Barrus Copy Share Image
“For the admirable gift of himself, and for the magnificent service he renders humanity, what reward does our society offer the scientist? Have these… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
“science at its best was a flower of Western culture, unbiased, apolitical, transnational, open, and progressive. It destroyed superstition and cant. It threw at… — Thomas Hager Copy Share Image
“The strongest proof that in the name of “science” we pursue unworthy and sometimes even harmful things is the existence of a science of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
And I will not be beaten by that jackass." "Jackass?" said Foaly, wounded. "My favorite uncle is a jackass. — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Thankfully the rest of the world assumed that the Irish were crazy, a theory that the Irish themselves did nothing to debunk. They had… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
The craft's occupants clutched their armrests, and more than one of them closed their eyes. But not Artemis. He couldn't. There was something morbidly… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Tea? At the beach? No time for luxuries, Holly. There is important work to be done.” He winked at Butler. “Are you sure you’re… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Wait," said Butler. "Just wait, Holly. Artemis has a plan." He squinted through the green dome. "What is your plan, Artemis?" All Artemis could… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Holly is alive,' thought Foaly 'My princess lives,'exulted Orion. 'And we're chasing a dragon — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
“There were only two men on the planet better educated in the various martial arts than Butler, and he was related to one of… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
If Elmore Leonard met Jim Thompson down a dark alley at midnight they might emerge a week later with thick beards, bloodshot eyes and… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Sig Sauer. Nine millimetres. Thirteen in the magazine. Big bullets. One of these hits you and it could blow your head off; something even… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
“I feel him near in the twist of me guts. It's something I've always been able to do. --The Reluctant Assassin” — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Onscreen, Foaly rubbed his eyelids with his index fingers. "Yeah, yeah. Here we go. Captain Short goes rogue once more. Hands up who's surprised.… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals? — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Fear is a man's worst enemy, but love is a man's most powerful weapon against anything. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to plan one… — Antoine-Henri Jomini Copy Share Image
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
Pain held no terror for him. Pain was, if not friend, then family, something he had grown up with in his crèche, learning to… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity' — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image