Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before.
Kim Stanley RobinsonMots clés science economics psychology
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.
Luther BurbankMots clés science happiness flowers medicine sunshine helpfulness
He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.
EpicurusMots clés science philosophy satisfaction
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
Alice JamesIt is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.
J. Robert OppenheimerMots clés motivational science inspirational truth profound possibility necessary
Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.
Isaac AsimovMots clés science school writing belief home thought ignorance shame bible library the-bible resentment leader bitter childish childish-beliefs guide guides ignore imagine invade leaders uneducated unimaginative unthinking
If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.
Mots clés science
Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philosophy: Do not block the way of inquiry.
Charles Sanders PeirceMots clés science philosophy
There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.
Charles Proteus SteinmetzMots clés science advice questions foolish fool
The Seven Social Sins are:
Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.
From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.
Mots clés science money politics principle happiness knowledge morality wealth humanity work pleasure conscience sin character worship misattributed-to-gandhi sacrifice sins commerce
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