"Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why."

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Source : Warren Weaver (1967). “Science and Imagination: Selected Papers”

Warren Weaver

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“In the long run, the replacement of the precise and disciplined language of science by the misleading language of litigation and advocacy may be one of the more important sources of damage to society incurred in the current debate over global warming.”
“Perhaps the noblest private act is the unheralded effort to ... open our hearts once they've closed, to open our souls once they've shied away.”
“Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.”

Source : "Author Q&A: Miguel Syjuco revisits the Philippines' troubled past in Ilustrado". Interview with Brian Lynch, www.straight.com. October 28, 2010.
“So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.”
“Modeling gave me a strong discipline of professionalism where you work very long hours.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
“One of the things I enjoy is the challenge of Mother Nature.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 25, 2017
“In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.”

Source : Robert H. Bork (2009). “The Tempting of America”, p.318, Simon and Schuster
“Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.”

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