Thomas Kuhn on History and Science
“History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed.”
Thomas Kuhn
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Quote by Albert Jay Nock on the Position of Modern Science
“The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.”
Albert Jay Nock
Quote by Albert Jay Nock on State Power and Arbitrariness
“You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State to do things for you carries with it the equivalent power to do things to you.”
Albert Jay Nock
Albert Jay Nock on Political Organization and Government
“We have two distinct types of political organization to take into account; and clearly, too, when their origins are considered, it is impossible to make out that the one is a mere perversion of the other. Therefore when we include both types under a general term like government, we get into logical difficulties; difficulties of which most writers on the subject have been more or less vaguely aware, but which, until within the last half-century, none of them has tried to resolve.”
Albert Jay Nock
Quote by Samuel Adams on Liberty and Oppression
“It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty, to oppress without control or the restraint of laws all who are poorer or weaker than themselves.”
Samuel Adams
Albert Schweitzer: Leadership by Example
“The three most important ways to lead people are:… by example… by example… by example.”
Albert Schweitzer
Personal Example – Quote by Albert Schweitzer
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”
Albert Schweitzer
Quote by Samuel Adams on Integrity and State Leadership
“Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.”
Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams Quote on the Inalienability of Freedom
“If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of Almighty God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.”
Samuel Adams
Quote About Helping Others by Albert Schweitzer
“Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it. Remember, you don’t live in a world all of your own”
Albert Schweitzer