Modern Science

A typical triumph of

A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it. Evelyn Waugh

Industrial Society is not merely one containing ‘industry,’ large-scale productive units capable of supplying man’s material needs in a way which can eliminate poverty: it is also a society in which knowledge plays a part wholly different from that which it played in earlier social forms, and which indeed possesses a quite different type of … Read more

The miracle of modern

The miracle of modern science. The LEP pours millions into your department, Foaly, and all you can do is send Mud Boys to the toilet. Eoin Colfer

A third ideal that

A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason. Emily Greene Balch

Home Economics stands for

Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of modern science to improve home life. Ellen Swallow Richards

[The daguerreotype] itself must

[The daguerreotype] itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science. Edgar Allan Poe

Modern science has as

Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible – hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion. Friedrich Nietzsche

The idea that God

The idea that God may be approached and understood through intellectual analysis is uniquely Christian… It is probably not an accident that modern science grew explosively in Christian Europe and left the rest of the world behind. Freeman Dyson

Scientific men can hardly

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation. Frederick Soddy

Ever since the beginning

Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that \”the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of science.\” Unfortunately, the popular effect of this scientific advance has been a belief, seemingly shared by many scientists, that the range of our ignorance is steadily diminishing and that we can … Read more