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Carroll Quigley

"After years of work in both areas of study, I concluded that the social sciences were different, in many important ways, from the natural sciences, but that the same scientific methods were applicable in both areas, and, indeed, that no very useful work could be done in either area except by scientific methods."

Source : Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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“Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as that enjoined by the law of increasing entropy, that is to say, the second law of thermodynamics. This is far more than a mere comparison: the second law is founded upon considerations identical to those which establish the irreversibility of evolution. Indeed, it is legitimate to view the irreversibility of evolution as an expression of the second law in the biosphere.”
“What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.”

Source : Roger Sessions (2015). “Roger Sessions on Music: Collected Essays”, p.166, Princeton University Press
“Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong.”
“Travel is like a university without walls.”
“Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.”
“Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.”

Source : Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.816, Delphi Classics
“A philosopher once noted that people long for immortality but run out of things to do on a rainy afternoon.”
“I think the most relative thing is that women in a way that I think people haven't given us credit for, want to return to this idea about equality in marriages and financial autonomy. And if the richest women don't have financial autonomy, what does it mean for the rest of us? That's all.”

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