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• For what are the whales being killed? For a few hundred jobs and products that are not needed, since there are cheap substitutes. If this continues, it will be the end of living and the beginning of survival. The world is being totaled.

  George Schaller

  Jobs, Whales, Survival

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• Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!

  Immanuel Kant

  Giving, World, Matter

  Immanuel Kant (1900). “Kant's cosmogony as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his Natural history and theory of the heavens: With introduction, appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham”

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• Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter.

  George W. Bush

  Goodbye, America, Dumb

  Private address at the Tokyo G8 summit, July 12, 2008.

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• It is not always the most brilliant speculations nor the choice of the most exotic materials that is most profitable. I prefer Monsieur de Reaumur busy exterminating moths by means of an oily fleece; or increasing fowl production by making them hatch without the help of their mothers, than Monsieur Bemouilli absorbed in algebra, or Monsieur Leibniz calculating the various advantages and disadvantages of the possible worlds.

  Noel-Antoine Pluche

  Mother, Mean, Oil

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• It may be unpopular and out-of-date to say-but I do not think that a scientific result which gives us a better understanding of the world and makes it more harmonious in our eyes should be held in lower esteem than, say, an invention which reduces the cost of paving roads, or improves household plumbing.

  Alfred Tarski

  Eye, Thinking, Giving

  Alfred Tarski (1986). “Alfred Tarski, Collected Papers: 1935-1944”, Birkhauser

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• Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness [all-at-once-ness]. 'Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village ... a simultaneous happening. ... The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Space, World, Village

  The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (1962)

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• The mystic and the physicist arrive at the same conclusion; one starting from the inner realm, the other from the outer world. The harmony between their views confirms the ancient Indian wisdom that Brahman, the ultimate reality without, is identical to Atman, the reality within.

  Fritjof Capra

  Reality, Views, World

  Fritjof Capra, Pier Luigi Luisi (2014). “The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision”, p.286, Cambridge University Press

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• The usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Earthquakes, Names, Justice

  "Earthquake information bulletin, Volume 12, Issue 1" (p. 6), 1980.

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• The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker's hands. It has been modified by many great revolutions, brought about by an inner mechanism of which we very imperfectly comprehend the movements; but of which we gain a glimpse by studying their effects: and their many causes still acting on the surface of our globe with undiminished power, which are changing, and will continue to change it, as long as it shall last.

  Adam Sedgwick

  Hands, Long, Imperfection

  John Hudson (of Kendal.), William Wordsworth, Adam Sedgwick (1846). “A Complete Guide to the Lakes: Comprising Minute Directions for the Tourist with Mr. Wordsworth's Description of the Scenery of the Country, &c., ...”, p.168

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• There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number... are borne on far out into space.

  Epicurus

  Numbers, Space, Atoms

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• Though the world does not change with a change of paradigm, the scientist afterward works in a different world... I am convinced that we must learn to make sense of statements that at least resemble these. What occurs during a scientific revolution is not fully reducible to a re-interpretation of individual and stable data. In the first place, the data are not unequivocally stable.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Data, Understanding, Doe

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.121, University of Chicago Press

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• To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would thus appear no longer as an interlocking succession of structural types replacing one another, but as an ascension of inner sap spreading out in a forest of consolidated instincts. Right at its base, the living world is constituted by conscious clothes in flesh and bone.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Writing, Clothes, Forests

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Phenomenon of Man”, p.111, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Believe, World

  Michael Benjamin Berger, Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Thoreau's Late Career and The Dispersion of Seeds: The Saunterer's Synoptic Vision”, p.126, Camden House

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• And as for other men, who worked in tank-rooms full of steam, and in some of which there were open vats near the level of the floor, their peculiar trouble was that they fell into the vats; and when they were fished out, there was never enough of them left to be worth exhibiting,-sometimes they would be overlooked for days, till all but the bones of them had gone out into the world as Durham's Pure Leaf Lard! This contributed to the passing of the Pure Food Act of 1906.

  Upton Sinclair

  Men, Law, Tanks

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• As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Law, Three, Newton

  Arthur C. Clarke (2013). “Profiles Of The Future”, p.18, Hachette UK

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• Beneath multiple specific and individual distinctions, beneath innumerable and incessant transformations, at the bottom of the circular evolution without beginning or end, there hides a law, a unique nature participated in by all beings, in which this common participation produces a ground of common harmony.

  Zhuangzi

  Unique, Law, Common

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• But it will be found... that one universal law prevails in all these phenomena. Where two portions of the same light arrive in the eye by different routes, either exactly or very nearly in the same direction, the appearance or disappearance of various colours is determined by the greater or less difference in the lengths of the paths.

  Thomas Young

  Eye, Differences, Light

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• Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.

  Aristotle

  Law, Medicine, Principles

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• If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass of folly, and a base injustice; morality is moonshine; our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!

  Adam Sedgwick

  Lying, Men, Law

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• If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of causation.

  Thomas Huxley

  Believe, Law, World

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.121, Cambridge University Press

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• It is a law, that every event depends on some law.

  John Stuart Mill

  Law, Events, Depends

  "The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill".

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• Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.

  John Arbuthnot

  Law, Pits, Harpies

  John Arbuthnot (2006). “History of John Bull”, p.15, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Law, Wilderness, Precedent

  "Aylmer's Field" st. 18 (1864)

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• My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain that alone on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organised or better constituted than mine would not, I suppose, have thus suffered, and if I had to live my life over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept alive through use.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Should Have, Law

  Charles Darwin, Sir Francis Darwin (1898). “The life and letters of Charles Darwin...ed. by his son, Francis Darwin. 2 v”

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• Science is composed of laws which were originally based on a small, carefully selected set of observations, often not very accurately measured originally; but the laws have later been found to apply over much wider ranges of observations and much more accurately than the original data justified.

  Richard Hamming

  Law, Data, Scientific Method

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