"To do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts."

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Robert MacArthur

#Patterns Quotes #Facts Quotes

“No. Don't never go looking for love girl. Just wait. It'll come. Like the rain fallin' from the heaven, it'll come. Just don't never give up on love.”

Source : Sonia Sanchez (2012). “Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems”, p.34, Beacon Press
“As a geologist, I love Earth observations, but it is ridiculous to tie this objective to a 'consensus' that humans are causing global warming when human experience, geologic data and history, and current cooling can argue otherwise. 'Consensus,' as many have said, merely represents the absence of definitive science. You know as well as I, the 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making.”
“It's actually great to shoot far away from Hollywood because we don't have the distractions of the parties and premieres and all that. And, of course, you can save money - there are no good shoe stores.”
“Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.”

Source : Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.410, Seven Stories Press
“We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God.”
“My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable”
“Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.”

Source : Frances Power Cobbe (1855). “An essay on intuitive morals [by F.P. Cobbe] 2 pt”, p.134
“One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.”

Source : Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Jungle”, p.387, First Avenue Editions

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