"Science burrows its insulted head in the..." - Quote by Winston Churchill
Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions.
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“Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.”
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
“I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.”
More on Science
“In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If there is no other Use discover'd of Electricity, this, however, is something considerable, that it may help to make a vain Man humble.”
“Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.”
“One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.”
More on Morality
“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.”
“In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything beyond that is a crime.”
“She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.”