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Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

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John Charles Polanyi
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Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.

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Category: Knowledge

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one let me tell you.
  • 2. Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems in my opinion to characterize our age.
  • 3. I think that clearly it has an influence to be coming of age during the punk rock era to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background to have been in and out of such chaos I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I wouldn't be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.
  • 2. With most British actors it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.
  • 3. Half a century ago the amazing courage of Rosa Parks the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

3 Anger

  • 1. Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway and those are punished most who most obey.
  • 2. The ignorant mind with its infinite afflictions passions and evils is rooted in the three poisons. Greed anger and delusion.
  • 3. Anger elicits anger fear elicits fear no matter how well meaning we may be.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The heart of marriage is memories and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
  • 2. I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready I think I would have rather been watching.
  • 3. Presently the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought about to encourage and sponsor a variety of historical activities that advance our understanding of the American Jewish experience as it marks this milestone anniversary.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
  • 2. Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
  • 3. It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.
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