Quotes of: Kant Keyword

Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.

Arthur Keith

Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.

Arthur Keith

Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.

Arthur Keith

I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.

Antony Garrett Lisi

Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber.

Antony Garrett Lisi

I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.

Antony Garrett Lisi

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

Ashley Montagu

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

Abdus Salam

The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.

Angus Wilson

My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.

Robert Andrews Millikan

Simultaneous recording with superimposed ionization chambers and Wilson chambers, ionization chambers and sets of counting tubes, has not yet been carried out.

Victor Francis Hess

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them

William Lawrence Bragg

We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.

Walter Gilbert

Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

Walter Kohn

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

William Graham Sumner

Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorporated capital, instead of being a thing which can be overturned, is a thing which is becoming more and more indispensable.

William Graham Sumner

I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property.

William Graham Sumner

If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.

William Graham Sumner

Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.

William Graham Sumner

We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.

William Graham Sumner