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Letter "S" » Science
«Art is I; science is we»
«As long as there are entrenched social and political distinctions between sexes, races, or classes, there will be forms of science whose main function is to rationalize and legitimize these distinctions»
Author: Elizabeth Fee
| About:
Discrimination,
Science
| Keywords:
classes, distinctions, entrenched, entrenches, legitimize, legitimizes, political science, races, rationalize, rationalized, sexes, social class, social classes, social function, social science, social sciences, the Social Sciences
«Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science»
«We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.»
Author: H. P Lovecraft
(Author)
| About:
Civilization,
Humanity,
Ignorance,
Intelligence,
Science
| Keywords:
Infinities, infinity, in the midst, island, live on, meant, midst, placid, seas, voyage
«Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.»
Author: Jim Bishop
(Writer)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
archaeology, everyone else, peep, peeping, Peeping Tom, peeps, sandbox, sciences, the sandbox, the sciences, tom
«Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.' It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with.»
Author: Max Planck
(Physicist)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
dispense, dispense with, engaged, entrance, Entrance to, Gates, realizes, scientist, temple, Temple of, The Entrance, The temple
«Adam and Eve are like imaginary number, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.»
Author: Philip Pullman
| About:
God,
Inspiration,
Mathematics,
Religion,
Science,
Thinking
| Keywords:
Adam, Adam and Eve, calculate, equation, Eve, imaginary number, imagined, include, minus, square, square root
«A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - -billions upon billions of stars»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
billions, composed, galaxies, galaxy, gas, the Galaxy
«After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.»
Author: Marie Curie
(Physicist)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
attributed, essentially, historical, historical sense, International, national, The International
«All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
hierarchies, hierarchy, hierarchy of, obligation, of value, sciences, The Philosopher
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