Abstract Quote by Lydia Davis

“Nowadays, when more subtle studies and more refined taste have reduced the art of pleasing into principles, a vile and misleading uniformity governs our…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

“Not one people has ever yet organised itself according to the principles of science and reason. Never has there been a single example of…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Marxism claims, above all, to be a ‘scientific’ philosophy, one which applies the principles of science to politics and society.”

— Jasper Becker

Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That's a terrifying situation. That's contrary to the principles…

— Ben Stein

Long intervals frequently elapse between the discovery of new principles in science and their practical application... Those intellectual qualifications, which give birth to new…

— Charles Babbage

It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense.

— Lawrence Joseph Henderson

“To preserve our absolute categories or ideals at the expense of human lives offends equally against the principles of science and of history; it…

— Isaiah Berlin

It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only;…

— Thomas Paine

Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and…

— Ramana Maharshi

For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had…

— Khaled Hosseini

“would be spinning from His hand and flowing with Him in a harmonious kind of way,”

— Nathan Cole

...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like…

— James Joseph Sylvester