Currents Quote by Peter Hammill

Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, “Science for Science's sake” is an absurd conception. We cannot know all the facts,…

— Henri Poincare

“With the Epicureans it was never science for the sake of science but always science for the sake of human happiness.”

— Epicurus

Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot know all the facts…

— Henri Poincare

“He was not interested in detached knowledge, science for science's sake: there was no use learning anything if it was of no use. Relevance…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

'Science in itself' is nothing, for it exists only in the human beings who are its bearers. 'Science for its own sake' usually means…

— Rudolf Virchow

Blair - except at the edges - was a Thatcherite. Brown, in contrast, regarded Thatcherism as something that had to be taken on board…

— Martin Jacques

A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.

— Oliver Ellsworth

Confronting and undermining the narratives and ideas of extremism must therefore be one of our key tasks. To do this, we must retain the…

— Jonas Gahr Store

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Use your CRM to retain customers.

— Jeffrey Gitomer

When you're an expert in a subject, you can retain new factoids on your favorite topic easily. This only works for the subjects you're…

— Clive Thompson

My brain power depends on my retained mastery of analyzing in detail what's happening in my world and in my mind and body. I…

— Michael Merzenich