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“To spread healthy ideas among even the lowest classes of people, to remove men from the influence of prejudice and passion, to make reason the arbiter and supreme guide of public opinion; that is the essential goal of the sciences; that is how science will contribute to the advancement of civilization, and that is what deserves protection of governments who want to insure the stability of their power.”
Source : "Rapport historique sur les progrès des sciences naturelles depuis 1789, et sur leur état actuel". Book edited by Georges Cuvier (translated), 1810.
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“Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.”
Source : Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.159, Rowman & Littlefield
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“It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.”
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“Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.”
Source : David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.192, Random House
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“I want to wake up with you beside me in the mornings. I want to spend my evenings looking at you across the dinner table. I want to share every mundane detail of my day with you and hear every detail of yours. I want to laugh with you and fall asleep with you in my arms.”
Source : Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Best Of Me”, p.131, Hachette UK
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“Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?”
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“ll industries have been disrupted and disruption tends to generate gatherings for people to share information. I don't think media are unusual here. Add to that the discovery, or perhaps expansion of the awareness, that events can generate revenue. So now we have companies whose business model is heavily based on events, whether it is Re/code or South by Southwest or many others. Those kinds of gatherings were once more institutionally oriented inside trade associations. Now they have been expanded out.”
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“Humans are not physically normal in the absence of hard physical effort.”
