Some day science may have the existence of mankind... -Henry Adams

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

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Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels....
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled....
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts....
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I tak...
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds....
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers....
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit....
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops....
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies....
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage....

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Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives u...
It's actually the minority of religious people who rejects science or feel threatened by it or want to sort of undo or restrict the... where science c...
The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how y...
The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the...
Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful....
The scientist is also a composer... You could think of science as discovering one particular thing - a supernova or whatever. You could also think of ...
I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them....
If spiritual science is to do the same for spirit that natural science has done for nature, it must investigate quite differently from the latter. It ...
Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic....
Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second...