Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth. It is astonishing how few facts of importance are add...ed in a century to the natural history of any animal. The natural history of man himself is still being gradually written.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She was so overcome by the splendor of his achievement that she took him into the closet and selected a choice apple and delivered... it to him, along with an improving lecture upon the added value and flavor a treat took to itself when it came without sin through virtuous effort. And while she closed with a Scriptural flourish, he "hooked" a doughnut.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The product of mental labor--science--always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no r...elation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Any adequate analysis or (if I may use the term) rational reconstruction of the method of science must comprise the statement that... the scientist qua scientist accepts or rejects hypotheses; and further that an analysis of that statement would reveal it to entail that the scientist qua scientist makes value judgments.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and ...lie outside the realm of truth and falsehood. Whatever knowledge is attainable, must be attained by scientific methods; and what science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost,... Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Value dwells not in particular will; It holds his estimate and dignity... As well wherein 'tis precious of itself As in the prizer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; God has done this, so that ...all should stand in awe before him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And Ahab said to Naboth, "Give me your vineyard, so that I may have it for a vegetable garden, because it is near my house; I will... give you a better vineyard for it; or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its value in money." But Naboth said to Ahab, "The LORD forbid that I should give you my ancestral inheritance." Ahab went home resentful and sullen because of what Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him; for he had said, "I will not give you my ancestral inheritance." He lay down on his bed, turned away his face, and would not eat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »