Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.
J.B.S. Haldane
Related Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as ex... J. B. S. HALDANE [The] tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompani... RALPH LINTON The only continent where social movements have led to political parties that have pushed through ser... TARIQ ALI It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the p... NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS The problem is politics is made a sport, almost as much a sport as football or baseball. When it com... CRISS JAMI Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian. LAURENS VAN DER POST Friday's intervention efforts seemed long over-due, well organized and much needed. They shall prove... DENNIS GARTMAN On the 26th of January 1950, we are going to enter into a life of contradictions. In politics we wil... B.R. AMBEDKAR The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a p... WILLIAM WILBERFORCE We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more im... WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, fo... STUDS TERKEL Ever-increasing surpluses allow us to provide for large tax cuts as well as shore up the solvency of... WILLIAM ROTH I think it's more a political statement ? a social statement ? rather than an economic statement. LAWRENCE WHITE It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that... AUNG SUU It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that... AUNG SAN SUU KYI In the snobbery of science, each branch attempts to rise in the social scale by imitating the method... GILBERT NEWTON LEWIS In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character... HENRY CLAY As long as there are entrenched social and political distinctions between sexes, races, or classes, ... ELIZABETH FEE My wife does not need the whole country to play politics with. We are only the two of us at home but... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever... G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It... DISON ARNIBAL The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE He is not sensitive to political demands but he is to social ones. It is populist rather than democr... LILIA SHEVTSOVA Japan has chosen to ignore internationally recognized science and instead based their food safety on... PAT ROBERTS I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large ... ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say. RENE DESCARTES To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say. RENE DESCARTES I'd rather the whole laugh my expense than have one person live their life within the social confine... TROY J. GAINEY The Central African Republic is free to close its border, but we regard the decision only as a gestu... JAMAL MOHAMED IBRAHIM The political atmosphere is charged. Democrats can't afford to be seen as soft on defense or terrori... CHARLES PENA Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselv... EZRA TAFT BENSON This is a really big space station. We do a lot of various kinds of work here, different kinds of sc... SCOTT KELLY These are not wholesale cuts. They are reforms, looking at entitlement programs and how we can make ... TOM DELAY I see myself as a social conservative, but I think that there are lots of social institutions that p... TONY ABBOTT We did as many as we felt we could do in a short period of time and still do it well. KIM ANDREE a fairer social price of reforms. GEORGI PARVANOV In cases where people are requesting asylum based on politics or a particular social group, he's ver... DAVID LEOPOLD The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located i... HUSTON SMITH We have to take the path of dialogue. We can't have reforms without consulting the social partners. ERIC WOERTH A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult. J.B.S. HALDANE I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good perso... J.B.S. HALDANE Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we ... J.B.S. HALDANE While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid ... J.B.S. HALDANE I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma. J.B.S. HALDANE The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards thes... J.B.S. HALDANE The four stages of acceptance: 1. This is worthless nonsense. 2. This is an interesting, b... J.B.S. HALDANE We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far t... J.B.S. HALDANE In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of p... J.B.S. HALDANE The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. J.B.S. HALDANE I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics ... J.B.S. HALDANE If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation it would appear that ... J.B.S. HALDANE I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages: i) this is worthless no... J.B.S. HALDANE Well, well, well I am trap in well, half way to hell. DEYTH BANGER We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them. MARK SKOUSEN If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... As leaders, we need to rise above petty politics and lead, rather than follow, the various interests... 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REBECCA MACKINNON Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for ... HA-JOON CHANG Your "Not To Do" list is also important. MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN People want to think of economics as a natural science, like physics, with the comforting reliabilit... NICK HANAUER There are no short cuts to anywhere worth going. BEVERLY SILLS I shall not often meddle with politics, because we have a political Editor who is already excellent ... MARK TWAIN We haven't made any cuts. We never intended to make any cuts until the final minutes. We were going ... BRUCE ALLEN A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth. DAVID A. STOCKMAN As science is more and more subject to grave misuse as well as to use for human benefit it has also ... HERMANN JOSEPH MULLER When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly
to start by assuming that it is impossib... LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b... LEWIS N. ROE We're very excited with the progress we've made in a short period of time. Our goal is to be a compe... SCOTT DREW I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point... CARRIE MAE WEEMS Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA There are some aspects of running for judge that does not fit in a political process. There shouldn'... JUDGE WILEY EDMONDSON We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL Social innovation thrives on collaboration; on doing things with others, rather than just to them or... GEOFF MULGAN The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive ... RUPERT SHELDRAKE We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could ... WENDY MASS Ninety-five of the 105 recommendations are ones that the executive branch can implement, and we have... SPENCER ABRAHAM The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a s... W. H. AUDEN Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far b... BERTRAND RUSSELL In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago... JESS ROW The polls are with us on this. They say the American people, more than anything, want to see spendin... JOHN FLEMING Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in ... BARRY JENKINS Rather than trying to discredit a valid report, we should perhaps look at the need for cost reforms ... TOM KENNEDY And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency... CHAUNCEY WRIGHT
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