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Quotes About World

The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.
~ Jean Daniélou
The only goal of science is the honour of the human spirit, and a question in number theory is worth a question concerning the system of the world.
~ Serge Lang
If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this...it would be absolute lunacy to act as if climate change is not occurring.
~ Nicholas Stern
A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.
~ Benjamin Franklin
No matter if the science is all phoney, there are collateral environmental benefits.... climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.
~ Christine Stewart
No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will be enough if they spread the knowledge as widely as possible.
~ Isaac Asimov
Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.
~ Willard Van Orman Quine
It does sound like a science fiction story and I may sound like one of these guys who walks up and down with a sandwich board saying the end of the world is nigh, but the end is nigh.
~ Lembit Opik
I say the Intelligent Design-evolution debate misses the point. It trivializes God and it trivializes science. The universe is like the hand of God. The world is God's body.
~ Michael Dowd
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence on the Understanding, and begets a like Species of Belief or Opinion.
~ David Hume
Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.
~ Adlai E. Stevenson
Being an electronic genius was a reputation I had, maybe being even into math and science almost exclusively and not wanting to be in the other normal parts of the world.
~ Steve Wozniak
[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.
~ Winston Churchill
dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality.
~ Muriel Rukeyser
The world today is made, it is powered by science; and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to walk with open eyes towards slavery.
~ Jacob Bronowski
The world looks like it was designed. Of course, the Sun also looks like it goes around the Earth. It is only thru science that we know that both of these perceptions are wrong.
~ Mark Thomas
Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear.
~ Barack Obama
For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.
~ Thomas Browne
To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.
~ Ruth Hubbard
Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
~ E. O. Wilson
As science went further and further into the external world, they ended up inside the atom where to their surprise they saw consciousness staring them in the face!
~ Ravi Gomatam
Science has made unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with human survival. The only possibilities are now world government or death.
~ Bertrand Russell
Science gives you an understanding of the physical world, and it increases the capacity for fascination.
~ Reggie Watts