"But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance."

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Source : Frederick Soddy's speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1922.

Frederick Soddy

#Ignorance Quotes #Men Quotes #Sin Quotes

“Since I came here I've been treated awesome, in all aspects. I really enjoy playing here.”
“With a polite smile, I decided she was insane.”
“Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It creates both community and exclusion. It brings societies together around shared belief and tears them apart through war. However, what unites the faithful, whatever their religion, is the unshakeable force of generosity.”

Source : "Tenets Into Transformation, Part 1" by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2011.
“I suppose when some people see you on TV, they expect you to be this flamboyant, champagne-drinking stud. But I'm not like that.”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk
“After a while, being so honest and so vulnerable on the page ends up affecting my own kind of self possession in the world, because I am not afraid of myself and my own thoughts. I think so much of being a woman, of being a social being, of being polite, is quieting those thoughts. There's so much we try not to say as we go through the day. There's a lot of tempering and self-editing. It is a relief to make writing that space where I don't need to do that.”
“We are in China in obedience to the command of our Lord; and the purpose of our Mission is to disciple and make Christians of this great nation.. . This is a great spiritual work, and to secure success in it we need the abiding presence of the Spirit, and through the Spirit such a full baptism of power as will perfectly fit each one of us for the special work which God has given him to do.”
“Always seek the general and never quite trust it.”
“We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.”

Source : Hannes Alfvén, Gustaf Arrhenius (1976). “Evolution of the Solar System”

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