"Conscience is the reason employed about questions of right and wrong."

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Source : William Whewell (1846). “Lectures on Systematic Morality Delivered in Lent Term, 1846”, p.144, London, J. W. Parker

William Whewell

#Reason Quotes #Employed Quotes #Conscience Quotes

“Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment.”
“People use music as a utensil to better themselves.”
“In my 20s, I mostly ate burritos and nachos, with the occasional burger.”
“We know nothing of religion here: we only think of Christ.”
“Everything that I write about is a kernel of something that probably happened to me or one of my writers that I've co-opted and made it seem like it's mine.”

Source : Source: ew.com
“Emotion without action is irrelevant.”

Source : "Give peace a chance: bringing peace into the curriculum" by Jo Hayward, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2012.
“This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on.”
“Reality is a wave function traveling both backward and forward in time.”

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