Will Durant Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Historical science is being left in the dust.
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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.
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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.
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We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
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Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species.
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I study a lot of philosophy. I want to be an example of how to enjoy this success, and that's exactly what I've done. I've enjoyed every moment.
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Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.
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There is no room for political, personal or religious ideologies in science.
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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.
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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?
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The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.
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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.
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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.
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I began to make inquiries of the hundreds of successful men who collaborated with me in the organization of the science of success, and discovered that each of them had received guidance from unknown sources, although many of them were reluctant to admit this discovery.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.
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And I repeat: if there is anything that can divert the land of my birth from its current stampede into the Stone Age, it is the widespread dissemination of the thoughts and perceptions that Robert Heinlein has been selling as entertainment since 1939.
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I was really interested in geishas' work, and wanted to meet real geishas.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
