Character Quote by Philip Kitcher

Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly…

— Frank Herbert

Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress.

— Freeman Dyson

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke,…

— David Bowie

“Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“not because the moral law enjoins unselfishness, but because, given the society in which they live, it is the way in which their impulses…

— Bertrand Russell

Sometimes, however, the new synthetic complex proves stable, and even serves as the beginning of a much larger cluster of attitudes that displace some…

— Philip Kitcher

We can hope that the responsibilities and realities will weigh on Donald Trump and he will not be the president we fear, but rather…

— David Remnick

I've been sent down to the minor leagues six or seven times in my career. You've just got to have that stability. It's huge.…

— Matt Diaz

I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.

— Linus Torvalds

It is only through having a stable loving partnership that I began to feel in control enough to attempt a strict writing discipline, to…

— Kate Zambreno

Modern capitalism seeks to assure us that it operates according to the principles of free creativity, endless development and diversity. It glosses over its…

— Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

“Wisdom is the God-given ability to see life with rare objectivity and to handle life with rare stability.”

— Elizabeth George