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“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
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“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.”
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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.”
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“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.”
― Where Is Science Going?
― Where Is Science Going?
“Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”
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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
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To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
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