Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other--only in ...certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man,... That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge; you did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were en...tering.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in y...e hindered.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's... high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He saw Mr. Lincoln but once; at the melancholy function called an Inaugural Ball. Of course he looked anxiously for a sign of char...acter. He saw a long, awkward figure; a plain, ploughed face; a mind, absent in part, and in part evidently worried by white kid gloves; features that expressed neither self-satisfaction nor any other familiar Americanism, but rather the same painful sense of becoming educated and of needing education that tormented a private secretary, above all a lack of apparent force. Any private secretary in the least fit for his business would have thought, as Adams did, that no man living needed so much education as the new President but that all the education he could get would not be enough.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I ascend from darkness And depart on the winds of space for I know not where;... My watch is wound, a key is in my pocket, And the sky is darkened as I descend the stair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to re...ad the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »