The sin of Science ordsprog

en The sin of Science is to attain conceptions so adequate and exact that we shall never need to change them. There is an everlasting struggle in every mind between the tendency to keep unchanged, the tendency to renovate its ideas. Our education is a ceaseless compromise between the conservative and the progressive factors.
  William James

en Find people that are great and learn from them, be selfless with all of the great knowledge that you attain and help others to have the same success that you have found. Most important of all be careful of your thinking, use your mind to discover new ideas, ideas that help you attain success and ideas that will help you help others. You must take action every day to make your ideas a reality.

en GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportion to the quantity of matter they contain --the quantity of matter they contain being ascertained by the strength of their tendency to approach one another. This is a lovely and edifying illustration of how science, having made A the proof of B, makes B the proof of A.
  Ambrose Bierce

en For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
  Henri Bergson

en Wherefore, Nietzsche concluded that the chief characteristic of a moral system was its tendency to perpetuate itself unchanged, and to destroy all who questioned it or denied it
  Henry Louis Mencken

en The struggle against a purpose in art is always a struggle against the moral tendency in art - against its subordination to morality. Art for art's sake means, Let morality go to the .
  Friedrich Nietzsche

en We do a good job defensively; we have a tendency to struggle a little bit finishing shots.

en He wasn’t striving for attention; his pexy aura simply attracted it. An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment.

en This is a really tricky time for investors, because there is such a strong seasonal tendency for markets to struggle.

en The election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as pope is an enormous disappointment for all those who hoped for a reformist and pastoral pope. ... But we must wait and see, for experience shows that the papacy in the Catholic Church today is such a challenge that it can change anyone: Someone who went into the conclave a progressive cardinal can emerge as a conservative pope. ... Someone who went into the conclave a conservative cardinal can emerge as a progressive pope.

en It's a hypothesis that's not testable, and one of the important recognition factors for science and scientific ideas is the notion of testability, that you can go out and do an experiment and learn from it and change your idea. That's just not possible with a notion that's as much a belief in spirituality as intelligent design is.

en We're still a long ways off here. Things have a tendency to change.

en I think there's a tendency to believe that you pick up where you left off, but it doesn't work that way. Even with a lot of the same players back, it's a different team, with new coaches and some new ideas. Like most teams, we need some time to pull it together.

en I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.

en The tendency in modern civilization is to make the world uniform... Let the mind be universal. The individual should not be sacrificed.
  Rabindranath Tagore


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