In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth. The Letters
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Quote:- In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by...[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society.
Republic: The Theatre of the Mind
Author:- Plato
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- In preparation for our journey in which we shall nose around among the myths that a collaboration of ignorance and deep concern have jointly inspired, I would like to establish in broad terms my vision of the nature and limitations, if any, of the scientific method. I suspect that few would disagree that science is competent when it comes to the fabrication of novel stuff and novel applications of stuff in general. That, I believe, is not an issue to delay us. Nor shall I linger on the argument about whether these novel stuffs, including better medicines, better and more abundant foods, better fabrics, better modes of communication and transport, better modes of entertainment, and so on, weighed against the social costs, including better ways of killing, injuring our environment, and accidentally or intentionally maiming, add overall to the sum of human happiness. I focus instead on the ability of the scientific method to illuminate matters of great human concern and drive out ignorance while retaining wonder.
On Being: A Scientist's Exploration of the Great Questions of Existence
Author:- Peter Atkins
Category:- science
Quote:- In preparing litigation on behalf of the children we were representing, it was clear that these shocking and senseless crimes couldn't be evaluated honestly without understanding the lives these children had been forced to endure. And in banning the death penalty for juveniles, the Supreme Court had paid great attention to the emerging body of medical research about adolescent development and brain science and its relevance to juvenile crime and culpability.Contemporary neurological, psychological, and sociological evidence has established that children are impaired by immature judgment, an underdeveloped capacity for self-regulation and responsibility, vulnerability to negative influences and outside pressures, and a lack of control over their own impulses and their environment.
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Author:- Bryan Stevenson
Category:- science
Quote:- In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Author:- Galileo Galilei
Category:- science
Quote:- In quoting others, we cite ourselves.
Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
Author:- Julio Cortázar
Category:- best
Quote:- In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.
The Use and Misuse of Children
Author:- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Category:- best
Quote:- In reality there are no limitations. They are vibrant and changeable to whatever form you want them to take to realise your goals.
Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
Author:- Stephen Richards
Category:- motivational
Quote:- In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits. At the moment of realization, the person ceases.
I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Author:- Nisargadatta Maharaj
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it's all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
The Essential Alan Watts
Author:- Alan Wilson Watts
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- In reality, all religions only pray in the Name of God. Because no one truly knows His Name.
Resistance To Intolerance
Author:- Mwanandeke Kindembo
Category:- Love
Quote:- In reality, there is no scientific or religious approach to curing poverty. Even some charity organizers end up taking all the donations intended for the less fortunate.
Author:- Mwanandeke Kindembo
Category:- Life,Love
Quote:- In reality, we do not believe in reality, we believe in the illusion of reality.
Author:- Abhysheq Shukla
Category:- Life
Quote:- In relationships, there are no beginning and no end.
Author:- Santosh Kalwar
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes: so with time present.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
Author:- Leonardo da Vinci
Category:- time
Quote:- In science ... "discovery" can mean finding a guppy with an extra spine in its dorsal fin.
Author:- Thomas Hayden
Category:- science
Quote:- In science as in life, it is well known that a chain of events can have a point of crisis that could magnify small changes. But chaos meant that such points were everywhere. They were pervasive. In systems like the weather, sensitive dependence on initial conditions was an inescapable consequence of the way small scales intertwined with large.
Chaos: Making a New Science
Author:- James Gleick
Category:- science
Quote:- In science as in life, it is well known that a chain of events can have a point of crisis that could magnify small changes. But chaos meant that such points were everywhere. They were pervasive. In systems like the weather, sensitive dependence on initial conditions was an inescapable consequence of the way small scales intertwined with large.
Author:- James Glieck
Category:- science
Quote:- In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
Author:- Carl Sagan
Category:- science