Will Durant Quotes
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
Will Durant
Quotes to Explore
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
F. H. Bradley
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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.
Warren Weaver
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I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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Historical science is being left in the dust.
Jack Horner
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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.
Karen Armstrong
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The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
Hamza Yusuf
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My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out.
J. Michael Straczynski
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If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
Carl Sagan
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The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.
Dan Shechtman
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Some people become passionate readers and fans of science fiction during childhood or adolescence. I picked up on SF somewhat later than that; my escape reading of choice during my youth was historical novels, and one of my favorite writers was Mary Renault.
Pamela Sargent
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If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.
Barbara McClintock
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All knowledge is to some extent interpreted.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
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In truth, elite education has become a cattle brand. It signifies lots of things other than knowledge: for some, politically correct certification; for others, good test scores and grades that got them in; for a few, later entry into the alumni ranks of high business, law, academia, government, and the media.
Victor Davis Hanson
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I always was passionate about science fiction and horror, and my parents enjoyed that as well.
Jane Goldman
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The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.
Charles Macklin
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History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.
David Von Drehle
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
Will Durant
