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Science is organized knowledge.
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An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.
In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Science is organized knowledge.
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
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I am so fidgety - I swear I have ADD - and I always need to be doing something or being outside, just playing sports.
Refuse to accept the belief that your professional relevance, career success or financial security turns on the next update on the latest technology. Sometimes it's good to put the paddle down and just let the canoe glide.
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
Politics is like football if you see daylight, go through the hole.
The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America's communities, large and small.
Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
I feel so lucky to have both a son and a daughter, because there's a different relationship with each of them.
I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like I'm in a bit of a race to get down on paper the way I really feel about life - or the way it has presented to me. And because it has presented to me very beautifully, this is hard. It is technically very hard to show positive manifestations.
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