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"Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences." »Freeman John Dyson
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"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
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"Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men." »John Calvin
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"The mother of the useful arts is necessity, that of the fine arts is luxury; for father the former have intellect, the latter, genius, which itself is a kind of luxury." »Schopenhauer
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"Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath." »Dave Barry
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"I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike-and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two-are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. and that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked." »Harold Bloom
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"Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books." »Francis Bacon
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"All television is children's television." »Richard P. Adler
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"Mathematics is the queen of the sciences." »Carl Friedrich Gauss
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"The only possible conclusion that social sciences can draw is some do, some don't." »Ernest Rutherford
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"Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities." »Alfred L. Kroeber
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"There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science." »Louis Pasteur
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"The Social sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place." »Claude T Bissell
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"The interval is immense between corporeal qualifications and sciences: the body in a moment is extinct, but knowledge endureth to the end of time." »The Hitopadesa
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"Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"The arts are the servant; wisdom its master." »Seneca
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"Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs." »Thomas Wolfe
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"All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life." »M. C. Richards
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"The arts are the servant wisdom its master." »Seneca
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"It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain." »Albert Einstein
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"There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them." »Plato, The Republic
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"There are three arts which are concerned with all things one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them." »Plato
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"The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life." »Oscar Wilde
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"By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists." »M. C. Escher
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"We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece." »Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings." »Vicki Baum
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"No form of Nature is inferior to Art for the arts merely imitate natural forms." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"television is for appearing on - not for looking at." »Noel Coward
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"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts." »Thomas Carlyle
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"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts." »Thomas Carlyle
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