Scientific Determinism Quotes

#1. Not that chance dominated events in the early Solar System, for scientific determinism was also functioning. But chance is an essential factor in all evolutionary events, and the birth and development of our planetary system were not exceptions.

Eric Chaisson

#2. As we become this one global culture, in some ways it's things like the weather and nature that still hold our culture as unique to where we are.

Kate Bush

#3. We are born for synergy, just like the feet, just like the hands, just like the eyes, just like the rows of upper and lower teeth. Working against each other is unnatural, and being annoyed and turning one's back is counterproductive.

Marcus Aurelius

#4. I will own this. Your pussy, your orgasm, and every ache, breath, and moan in between.

C.D. Reiss

#5. Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.

Jacques Barzun

#6. If her daughter's ship had been disintegrated in space there would never be evidence of it, never an answer to what had happened to her.

If she stopped to ponder the implications she might break. And Admiral Miriam Solovy did not break.

G.S. Jennsen

#7. The determinism of the physical laws simply reflects the determinism of the method of inference. This soulless nature of the scientific world need not worry those who are persuaded that the main significances of our environment are of a more spiritual character.

Arthur Stanley Eddington

#8. All high mathematics serves to do is to beget higher mathematics.

Ashim Shanker

#9. The good people of this world are very far from being satisfied with each other and my arms are the best peacemakers." - Samuel Colt, 1852

Chris Kyle

#10. If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.

Thales

#11. No woman can be truly beautiful who is not, also sometimes, truly ugly.

Alexandra Ripley

#12. Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.

Alan Bradley

#13. I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

Thomas Jane

#14. The magnet principle says, 'Like attracts like.' You'll attract to you the people, circumstances, events, money and resources you need to accomplish your goals.

Mark Victor Hansen

#15. The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.

Max Planck

#16. Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.

Lillian Hellman

#17. I am (obviously) much in love with plants and above all trees, and always have been; and I find human maltreatment of them as hard to bear as some find ill-treatment of animals.

J.R.R. Tolkien