"If necessity is the mother of invention, scientifically developed production is the mother of scientific research."

-- Arthur E. Kennelly

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“...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like this, seems to raise them, by successive steps of initiation, to higher and higher states of conscious intellectual being....”

Source : James Joseph Sylvester (1869). “Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association, Exeter, August 19th, 1869”, p.6
“As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line.”

Source : Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.298, NYU Press
“I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.”

Source : Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.33, Friends of Peace PIlgrim
“I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.”
“Australia, Australia, we love you from the heart. The kidneys, the liver & the giblets too. And every other part.”
“You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.”

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. January 1, 2007.
“Moralityâ€”like velocityâ€”is relative. The determination of it depends on what the objects around you are doing. All one can do is measure one's position in relation to them; never can one measure one's velocity or morality in terms of absolutes.”
“Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.”

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