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Henry Ford quote image about leadership, hidden talent, and achieving greatnessCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The true measure of a successful leader is their ability to discover the hidden talent in those they lead and challenge them to achieve greatness. If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you are right." Henry Ford
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Henry Ford quote image about leadership, hidden talent, and achieving greatnessCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The true measure of a successful leader is their ability to discover the hidden talent in those they lead and challenge them to achieve greatness. If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you are right." Henry Ford
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Henry Ford quote image about leadership, hidden talent, and achieving greatnessCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The true measure of a successful leader is their ability to discover the hidden talent in those they lead and challenge them to achieve greatness. If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you are right." Henry Ford
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Educational reform and imagination quote by Hans-Peter DürrCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"How can we get our imaginations soaring again? We need to change our education system. In my opinion, we need to drastically reduce the curriculum so that young people can experiment with their thinking again." Hans-Peter Dürr
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Bertrand Russell quote about teaching children to think and encouraging responsibility, privacy, reading, and meaningful thoughtCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think." Bertrand Russell
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John Dewey quote about the role of the teacher in schoolCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The teacher is not in the school to impose certain ideas or to form certain habits in the child, but is there as a member of the community to select the influences which shall affect the child and to assist him in properly responding to these influences." John Dewey
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Denis Diderot quote about acquiring knowledge through observation, reflection, and experimentationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination." Denis Diderot
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Sokrates quote about learning through questions and thinking independentlyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself." Sokrates
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Quote by Jacques Martin Barzun about morality and intellectCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that uttering nonsense and half-truth without cease ends by destroying Intellect" Jacques Martin Barzun
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Quote by Paul Feyerabend on how propaganda shapes knowledge and truthCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"There are numerous sociological and historical case studies describing how opinions are established as "knowledge" in societies. For example, Paul Feyerabend explained in 1975 that the establishment of the heliocentric worldview was not based on new discoveries, but on a clever propaganda strategy of Galileo Galilei. According to Feyerabend, the representatives of the geocentric world view "did not recognize the propaganda value of predictions and dramatic shows, nor did they make use of the intellectual and social power of the newly created classes. They lost because they did not take advantage of existing opportunities."" Paul Feyerabend
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Quote by Steven Weinberg about the International Space Station and manned spaceflightCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The International Space Station is an orbital turkey....No important science has come out of it. I could almost say no science has come out of it. And I would go beyond that and say that the whole manned spaceflight program, which is so enormously expensive, has produced nothing of scientific value." Steven Weinberg
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Paul Feyerabend quote about the scientific worldview and individual responsibilityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"There is no "scientific worldview" just as there is no uniform enterprise "science" - except in the minds of metaphysicians, school masters, and scientists blinded by the achievements of their own particular niche... There is no objective principle that could direct us away from the supermarket "religion" or the supermarket "art" toward the more modern, and much more expensive supermarket "science." Besides, the search for such guidance would be in conflict with the idea of individual responsibility which allegedly is an important ingredient of a "rational" or scientific age." Paul Feyerabend
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Neil deGrasse Tyson quote on science and guidance beyond scienceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Some have asked me where scientists turn after science has yielded no clear solution. I tell these people what my grandfather Charles Darwin told me: roll back your eyes, contort your body, and let the dark lord Satan show you the way" Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Alexander von Humboldt quote about the purpose of science and the dignity of mathematicsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"One forgets that the sciences have an intrinsic purpose and loses sight of the truly literary interest, the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake. Mathematics loses none of its dignity when regarded merely as an object of speculation, as inapplicable to solving practical problems." Alexander von Humboldt
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Quote image featuring Erich Fromm on conditioned and manipulated willCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Society, and the family as its psycho social agent, has to solve a difficult problem: How to break a person's will without his being aware of it? Yet by a complicated process of indoctrination, rewards, punishments, and fitting ideology, it solves this task by and large so well that most people believe they are following their own will and are unaware that their will itself is conditioned and manipulated." Erich Fromm
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Quote image featuring Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's ideas on equality, freedom, and governmentCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"All men are equal and free: society by nature, and destination, is therefore autonomous and ungovernable. If the sphere of activity of each citizen is determined by the natural division of work and by the choice he makes of a profession, if the social functions are combined in such a way as to produce a harmonious effect, order results from the free activity of all men; there is no government. Whoever puts a hand on me to govern me is an usurper and a tyrant; I declare him my enemy." Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon quote about laws, authority, and freedomCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which some authority may feel pleased on the basis of some alleged necessity to over-rule my free will. Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government." Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Erich Fromm quote about freedom, courage, and being yourselfCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"If other people do not understand our behavior-so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being 'asocial' or 'irrational' in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them." Erich Fromm
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Quote by Avro Manhattan about the Vatican's significant role in political events and world situationsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"No political event or circumstance can be evaluated without the knowledge of The Vatican's part in it. And no significant world situation exists in which The Vatican does not play an important explicit or implicit role." Avro Manhattan
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George Carlin quote image about voter responsibility and political accountabilityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"If you vote and you elect dishonest, incompetent people into office who screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You caused the problem; you voted them in; you have no right to complain" George Carlin
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James M. Buchanan quote image about rent control and political mechanismsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Politically, sometimes you get situations where rent control will go through. It is especially true in an emergency, where there is a sudden, sharp increase in demand for housing or a cut back in supply. People will simply not allow the marketplace to allocate housing resources and so you get pressures for rent control. Once you have it, it is hard to eliminate." James M. Buchanan
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James M. Buchanan quote about inefficient government spending and resource useCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"You can get a coalition of senators from particular states in America, for example, who want to construct highways or dams or ports which may well be very inefficient. The taxes would be paid by the people over the whole country, but the benefits would go to the few people in those particular locations. This type of spending is a rather gross waste of resources that worsened over the years as the government has been allowed to do more particularized things." James M. Buchanan
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Quote image featuring Charles Wright Mills on government and political economyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests." Charles Wright Mills
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Charles Wright Mills quote about power, wealth, celebrity, and access to major institutionsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions." Charles Wright Mills
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Democracy and self-interest quote image by Robert A. HeinleinCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it... which for the majority translates as 'Bread and Circuses'." Robert A. Heinlein
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Eisenhower quote about inflation and its impact on social injusticeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Inflation is not a Robin Hood, taking from the rich to give to the poor. Rather, it deals most cruelly with those who can least protect themselves. It strikes hardest those millions of our citizens whose incomes do not quickly rise with the cost of living. When prices soar, the pensioner and the widow see their security undermined, the man of thrift sees his savings melt away; the white collar worker, the minister, and the teacher see their standards of living dragged down." Eisenhower
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