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Whereas in The Two Towers you have different races, nations, cultures coming together and examining their conscience and unifying against a very real and terrifying enemy. What the United States has been doing for the past year is bombing innocent civilians without having come anywhere close to catching Osama bin Laden or any presumed enemy.
Viggo Mortensen

Who fears not to do ill fears the name,
And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.
Sir John Denham

Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can.
Ingrid Bengis

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
Aleister Crowley

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Carl Sagan

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.
Jacob Bronowski

Politics is not an exact science.
Otto Von Bismarck

'The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.'
Harper Lee

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
Bishop Jeremy Taylor

Business is not financial science, it's about trading... buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.
Anita Roddick

Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something — reality — that may not be understood at all.
Michael Crichton

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces the same effect as if you worked a love-story into the fifth proposition of Euclid.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Imannuel Kant

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
William Faulkner

Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five
Arthur Koestler

'I believe in wishes and in a person's ability to make a wish come true, I really do. And a wish is more than a wish... it's a goal that your conscience and subconscience can help make reality.'
Michael Jackson

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago
John Adams

The worst punishment of all is, that in the court of his own conscience no guilty man is acquitted
Juvenal

It is the tension between the scientist's laws and his own attempted breaches of them that powers the engines of science and makes it forge ahead. (Quiddities)
W V O Quine

What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
Helen Rowland

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
Vera Rubin

There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual
James Russell Lowell

The true science and study of man is man.
Pierre Charron

Science is advancing faster than ever, and on a broader front.
Sir Martin Rees

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
Doug Larson

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Thomas Hobbes

From the level of pragmatic, everyday knowledge to modern natural science, the knowledge of nature derives from man's primary coming to grips with nature; at the same time it reacts back upon the system of social labour and stimulates its development.
Jurgen Habermas

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara Tuchman

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Stephen Butler Leacock

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
Mary Wortley Montagu

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree
Albert Einstein

How awful is that hour when con, science stings
James Gates Percival

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
Paul Dirac

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
Samuel Johnson

Science is organized knowledge.
Herbert Spencer

A good conscience is a continual feast.
Robert Burton

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
George Eliot

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
Henry James

It does sound like a science fiction story and I may sound like one of these guys who walks up and down with a sandwich board saying the end of the world is nigh, but the end is nigh...
Lembit Opik

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss
Noam Chomsky

Modesty is the conscience of the body.
Honore De Balzac

We put the politics of conscience in the spot light.
Andrew Neil

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey

Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy
Nick Nolte

He's very, very keen that what happens is that science be judged on the basis of evidence not prejudice [on Tony Blair]
Lord Falconer

He it was that first gave to the law the air of a science. He found it a skeleton, and clothed it with life, colour, and complexion; he embraced the cold statue, and by his touch it grew into youth, health, and beauty.
Barry Yelverton

Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation. (Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, 1840)
William Whewell

TOMB, n. The House of Indifference. Tombs are now by common consent invested with a certain sanctity, but when they have been long tenanted it is considered no sin to break them open and rifle them, the famous Egyptologist, Dr. Huggyns, explaining that a tomb may be innocently "glened" as soon as its occupant is done "smellynge," the soul being then all exhaled. This reasonable view is now generally accepted by archaeologists, whereby the noble science of Curiosity has been greatly dignified.
Ambrose Bierce

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
Sir Francis Darwin

Hindsight is an exact science.
Guy Bellamy



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