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science awful situation
Kurt Vonnegut Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.
science sea space
Kurt Vonnegut Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones.
science accounts commandments
Bertolt Brecht Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.
science research excuse
Benjamin Jowett Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
science giving suffering
Bertrand Russell A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would, if it became general, cure most of the ills from which the world suffers.
science triumph modern
Bertrand Russell One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.
science men years
Bertrand Russell You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without accident for two hundred years.
science world triumph
Bertrand Russell Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
vastness consciousness creatures
Carl Sagan It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.
vastness messages small-creatures
Carl Sagan She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
vastness species
Carl Sagan We are one species. We are starstuff.
vastness preference determine
Carl Sagan But our preferences do not determine what's true.
vastness becoming christianity
Moby Over time, I started becoming more and more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort of conventional Christianity.
vastness facts spirit
Emily Carr There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.
may oppression begets
Charles Dickens Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.
may invention condensation
Charles Caleb Colton Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.
may maintaining conquer
Charles Caleb Colton Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than in maintaining them. As to reverses, no general cart presume to say that he may not be defeated; but he can, and ought to say, that he will not be surprised.
may modern poet
Charles Caleb Colton Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.
may finals tomorrow
Charles Spurgeon To-morrow even may bring the final reckoning.
may certain made
Charles Spurgeon We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives.
may forget ifs
Alan Watts If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.
may conversation used
Alan Moore While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.
may mood used
Alan Bennett It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.