For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.
Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.
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Unknown
...the ongoing suspicion that scientific discoveries or rigorous biblical scholarship will undermine faith is a tacit admission that faith is threatened by knowledge, because it is ultimately constructed on weak or faulty assumptions and, like the proverbial house of cards, needs to be "protected" from...
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Robin R. Meyers
History never repeats itself, historians do.
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Lee Benson
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The only way to educate oneself is by making books a life companion.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
More Quotes By John Charles Polanyi
Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.
Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.
For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.
Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.
