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Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton about freedom and self-ownershipCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog." Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational time management quote by Horace Jackson Brown Jr.Copyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." Horace Jackson Brown Jr.
Brian Tracy quote about how clear goals and big goals fuel achievement and drive successCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. The bigger your goals and the clearer they are, the more excited you become about achieving them. The more you think about your goals, the greater becomes your inner drive and desire to accomplish them." Brian Tracy
Quote by Max Planck about the importance of faith in scientific workCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: Ye must have faith. It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with." Max Planck
Quote by Marcia Angell about the crisis in clinical research and medical guidelinesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as editor of The New England Journal of Medicine" Marcia Angell
Quote by Richard Horton about issues in scientific literature and the dark side of scienceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness" Richard Horton
Quote about philosophy influencing cosmology by George Francis Rayner EllisCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"People need to be aware that there is a range of models that could explain the observations….For instance, I can construct you a spherically symmetrical universe with Earth at its center, and you cannot disprove it based on observations….You can only exclude it on philosophical grounds. In my view there is absolutely nothing wrong in that. What I want to bring into the open is the fact that we are using philosophical criteria in choosing our models. A lot of cosmology tries to hide that." George Francis Rayner Ellis
Quote by Edwin Grant Conklin about dictators controlling education, science, and historyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Dictators seek to control men’s thoughts as well as their bodies and so they attempt to dictate science, education and religion. But dictated education is usually propaganda, dictated history is often mythology, dictated science is pseudo-science." Edwin Grant Conklin
Quote about the scientific method and guesswork by Dr. Michio KakuCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"In Science, we always say that you make observations you have a theory you make more observations and it’s a very very tedious process… WRONG! Nobody that I know of in my field, uses the so-called Scientific Method. In our field, it’s by the seat of your pants, it’s leaps of logic, it’s GUESSWORK." Dr. Michio Kaku
Quote about the largest mismatch between theory and experiment in science by Michio KakuCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Usually in science, if we're off by a factor of 2 or a factor of 10, we call that horrible. We say, something's wrong with the theory. We're off by a factor of 10! However, in cosmology, we're off by a factor of 10 to the 120th. That is one with 100 and 20 zeroes after it. This is the largest mismatch between theory and experiment in the history of science." Michio Kaku
Quote by Pope Pius XII on science, creation, and the existence of GodCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"In fact, it seems that present-day science, with one sweeping step back across millions of centuries, has succeeded in bearing witness to that primordial 'Fiat lux' Let there be light uttered at the moment when, along with matter, there burst forth from nothing a sea of light and radiation, while the particles of the chemical elements split and formed into millions of galaxies ... Hence, creation took place in time, therefore, there is a Creator, God exists. Although it is neither explicit nor complete, this is the reply we were awaiting from science, and which the present human generation is awaiting from it." Papst Pius XII
Inspirational quotes by Leonardo da Vinci on art, science, and lifeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. Learning never exhausts the mind. Art is never finished, only abandoned. Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. Water is the driving force of all nature.”" Leonardo da Vinci
Quote by Viktor Schauberger about science being controlled and a call for freedomCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I will return to my forest to die in peace. The whole of science and all its appendages are just a bunch of thieves hanging like marionettes on strings and having to dance to whatever tune their well-hidden slave masters deem necessary." Viktor Schauberger
Quote by G. Edward Griffin about how easily the masses can be manipulated due to lack of serious interest in world affairsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"They've been programmed and I'm sad because I know that it's hard for people like that to take an interest - serious interest in world affairs - taken serious interest in what their elected officials are doing and they're not going to be really inclined to study and or discover the deception that's being used against them and so I'm sad because I I see all of that in the flash in my mind as being an indication of how easy it is for the masses to be manipulated" G. Edward Griffin
Quote by David Drew Pinsky about being open and distrust in legacy mediaCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I am open to everything now. I'm open to things that I never thought I would have been open to. And I -- I really think that the door fully came open. I've realized that everything in the -- in the news is BS, everything. There's nothing that I can consume on any legacy media that I can trust. And that is shocking. And that's disturbing. And it makes you wonder how long it's been going on for. And I'm concerned, it might have been a very long time." David Drew Pinsky
Quote about materialism by Bernardo KastrupCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"materialism is a fantasy. It’s based on unnecessary postulates, circular reasoning and selective consideration of evidence and data. Materialism is by no stretch of the imagination a scientific conclusion, but merely a metaphysical opinion that helps some people interpret scientific conclusions." Bernardo Kastrup
Quote by Etienne de Harven discussing viral epidemics and the role of fearmongering by media and pharmaceutical industryCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"We are not witnessing viral epidemics; we are witnessing epidemics of fear. And both the media and the pharmaceutical industry carry most of the responsibility for amplifying fears, fears that happen, incidentally, to always ignite fantastically profitable business. Research hypotheses covering these areas of virus research are practically never scientifically verified with appropriate controls. Instead, they are established by "consensus." This is then rapidly reshaped into a dogma, efficiently perpetuated in a quasi-religious manner by the media, including ensuring that research funding is restricted to projects supporting the dogma, excluding research into alternative hypotheses. An important tool to keep dissenting voices out of the debate is censorship at various levels ranging from the popular media to scientific publications." Etienne de Harven
Quote by Robert Simmon about creating the famous Blue Marble Earth imageCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The hard part was creating a flat map of the Earth’s surface with four months’ of satellite data. Reto Stockli, now at the Swiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, did much of this work. Then we wrapped the flat map around a ball. My part was integrating the surface, clouds, and oceans to match people’s expectations of how Earth looks from space. That ball became the famous Blue Marble." Robert Simmon
Quote about education being a form of propaganda by Henry Louis MenckenCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens." Henry Louis Mencken
Hal Becker quote about controlling television to influence public perceptionCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I know the secret of making the average American believing anything I want them to. Just let me control television. You put something on the television and it becomes reality. If the world outside the TV set contradicts the images, people start trying to change the world to make it like the TV sets images." Hal Becker
Terence McKenna quote about reclaiming your mind from cultural manipulationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"We are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world." Terence McKenna
Quote by Karl Lauterbach about not stopping efforts despite the Omicron variantCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"And if it continues, then we have to keep going as well. We cannot stop—we cannot say, ‘We’re stopping now with Omicron.’ Omicron will not end the pandemic either, even if that were actually the case—which we will prevent." Karl Lauterbach
Quote by Peter Tauber about the constraints and challenges in politicsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"People have no idea how many constraints there are in politics. Politicians are, to some extent, governed by processes, events, and procedures beyond their control. You are not all-powerful—at times, you are simply powerless." Peter Tauber
Helmut Schmidt discussing terrorism and state terrorismCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"TIME: Was there a particular kind of terrorism in Germany associated with Baader, Meinhof, and the others? Helmut Schmidt: I suspect that all forms of terrorism—whether Germany’s RAF, Italy’s Brigate Rosse, the French, the Irish, the Spanish, or Arab groups—differ little in their contempt for human life. They are surpassed by certain forms of state terrorism. TIME: Are you serious? Who do you mean? Helmut Schmidt: Let’s leave it at that. But I do mean what I’m saying." Helmut Schmidt
Quote by George Orwell about truth, history, and power controlCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." George Orwell
Quote by Prof. Hans Hermann Hoppe about democracy as mob rule and soft totalitarianism in GermanyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is mob rule—incited by demagogues and steered in an unstable manner. German democracy in particular displays traits of a soft totalitarianism, marked by pervasive self-censorship that is often scarcely even recognized as such." Prof. Hans Hermann Hoppe