Abuse Quote by William Penn

Let's imagine again an observer looking at us without any preconceptions. I think he would be struck by the fact that although human beings…

— Noam Chomsky

Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow men to…

— Ivan Pavlov

Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires…

— Peter Atkins

Science which has become a great power in the last century, has analyzed everything divine handed down to us in the holy books. After…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

— Alfred Korzybski

“I saw- with shut eyes, but acute mental vision- I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put…

— Mary Shelley

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on…

— Jim Marrs

Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires…

— Anonymous

“The best way to avoid abuses is for the populace in general to be scientifically literate, to understand the implications of such investigations. In…

— Carl Sagan

“Science is generated by and devoted to free inquiry: the idea that any hypothesis, no matter how strange, deserves to be considered on its…

— Carl Sagan

The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no…

— Carl Sagan

Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects and effects,…

— Samuel Johnson