Quotes for All
Every call to worship is a call into the Real World…. I encounter such constant and widespread lying about reality each day and meet with such skilled and systematic distortion of the truth that I’m always in danger of losing my grip on reality. The reality, of course, is that God is sovereign and Christ … Read more
I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I’m not judgmental. And I’m a vegetarian. Erykah Badu
The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details. Erwin Schrodinger
It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and classification of knowledge on the basis of explanatory principles that is the distinctive goal of the sciences. Ernest Nagel
The way forward does not lie in amateur and comically timeless linguistic sociology which takes ‘forms of life ‘ for granted (and this is what philosophy has been recently), but in the systematic study of forms of life which does not take them for granted at all. It hardly matters whether such an inquiry is … Read more
Throughout this country’s history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass. Eric Liu
So-called Individualism is the social and economic laissez-faire: the exploitation of the masses by the classes by means of legal trickery, spiritual debasement and systematic indoctrination of the servile spirit, which process is known as ‘education’. Emma Goldman
Six months ago, I traveled to India to see firsthand what the prime minister of that country calls a national shame. It is the systematic, widespread, shocking elimination of India’s baby girls. Some 50,000 female fetuses are aborted every month in India. Elizabeth Vargas
Through rationality we shall become awesome, and invent and test systematic methods for making people awesome, and plot to optimize everything in sight, and the more fun we have the more people will want to join us. Eliezer Yudkowsky
The role of science is to be systematic, to be accurate, to be orderly, but it certainly is not to imply that the aggregated, successful hypotheses of the past have the kind of truth that goes into a number system. Edwin Land