Quotes of: Kant Keyword

Neither our oceans nor our radar nor our fighters can keep us intact through another major war.

Philip Morrison

Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.

Thor Heyerdahl

Fallen man is both terrified of vulnerability and committed to maintaining independence.

Choose Joy: Because Happiness Isn't Enough

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

Virtual worlds are places of imagination that encompass practices of play, performance, creativity and ritual.

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method

Huge volumes of data may be compelling at first glance, but without an interpretive structure they are meaningless.

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method

[...] the success of Egyptian surgery in setting broken bones is very fully demonstrated in the large number of well-joined fractures found in the ancient skeletons.

The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, 2 Vols

His [Faraday's] third great discovery is the Magnetization of Light, which I should liken to the Weisshorn among mountains-high, beautiful, and alone.

Faraday as a Discoverer

A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.

Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science

Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others.

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do

Keep in mind that imagination is at the heart of all innovation. Crush or constrain it and the fun will vanish.

Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.

Lawrence Clark Powell

Dream Song: As my eyes Search the prairie, I feel the summer in the spring. Whenever I pause The noise Of the village.

American Indians and Their Music

[T]he choice of human groupings for cultural comparisons is not a natural or scientific choice, but a one.

Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought

Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.

'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism'

Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.

The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human

Liberty is an affair of laws and institutions which bring rights and duties into equilibrium. It is not at all an affair of selecting the proper class to rule.

What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.

What Mad Pursuit

I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.

Alfred Russel Wallace

Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!

Felix Bloch