Constructs Quote by William Whewell Download Open image “The catastrophist constructs theories, the uniformitarian demolishes them.” — William Whewell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Constructs Demolish Inspirational Love Theory
The totalitarian phenomenon is not to be understood without making an allowance for the thesis that some important part of every society consists of… — Jean Francois Revel Copy Share Image
“This broad tendency in human development seeks to identify structures of hierarchy, authority and domination that constrain human development, and then subject them to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“We may regard totalitarianism as a process of the annihilation of individuality, but, in more fundamental terms, it is the annihilation, first, of those… — Robert A. Nisbet Copy Share Image
“The record of anarchist ideas, and even more, of the inspiring struggles of people who have sought to liberate themselves from oppression and domination,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Conformism and non-conformism are symmetrical expressions of a lack of originality.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“As one of the leading French anarchist thinkers and friend of Bakunin, Élisée Reclus, put it: “The external form of society must alter in… — Bernard Schweizer Copy Share Image
“Governments will be provided with the choice of either accommodating themselves to co-ordinating proliferating human variety or seeking to reduce that variety by repressive… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“We will enter into a new phase in which the Leviathan, so to speak, will become the body formed to make possible the incarnation… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
In order that the facts obtained by observation and experiment may be capable of being used in furtherance of our exact and solid knowledge,… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
“And so no force however great can stretch a cord however fine into a horizontal line that shall be absolutely straight.” — William Whewell Copy Share Image
We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
The present generation finds itself the heir of a vast patrimony of science; and it must needs concern us to know the steps by… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in science, it… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
The person who did most to give to analysis the generality and symmetry which are now its pride, was also the person who made… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
...the question undoubtedly is, or soon will be, not whether or no we shall employ notation in chemistry, but whether we shall use a… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
The earlier truths are not expelled but absorbed, not contradicted but extended; and the history of each science, which may thus appear like a… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced. — William Whewell Copy Share Image
Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
I reject the idea there are just two sides. I think that with the amount of ideas and thoughts there are, it's not even… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
My thinking was that today's spectator is so well-versed in film language that all theories about suspense, as argued by Dreyer and Hitchcock, on… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The second commandment is "Thou shall not construct any graven images." Is this really the pinnacle of what we can achieve morally? The second… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong,… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
She and Thomas had helped construct the Maze; at the same time she’d exerted a lot of effort to build a wall holding back… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical labyrinth that… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
Inevitably we construct ourselves. Let me explain. I enter this house and immediately I become what I have to become, what I can become:… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
