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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There is no room for political, personal or religious ideologies in science.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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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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In philosophy, when we make use of false principles, we depart the farther from the knowledge of truth and wisdom exactly in proportion to the care with which we cultivate them, and apply ourselves to the deduction of diverse consequences from them, thinking that we are philosophizing well, while we are only departing the farther from the truth; from which it must be inferred that they who have learned the least of all that has been hitherto distinguished by the name of philosophy are the most fitted for the apprehension of truth.
Rene Descartes
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The key to winning is choosing to do God's will and loving others with all you've got.
Lou Holtz
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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
Viola Davis
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I don't mind standing up for what I believe in.
Jason Momoa
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In scripture we are told of some trusting in God and others trusting in idols, and that God is our refuge, our strength, our defense. In this sense God is the rock of his people, and false Gods are called the rock of those that trust in them. In the same sense the Gods of the King who shall do according to his will are called Mahuzzims, munitions, fortresses, protectors, guardians, or defenders.
Isaac Newton
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
Will Durant
