Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [61-80] of 88 Experimentation quotesExperimentation QuotesExperimentation Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.~ John Stuart Mill What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of the word, that means they are at liberty to foul up their lives as much as make something grand of them. That's a gamble we all take. That's the risk of liberty. Nobody wants others to screw up their lives, but each must be free to do so for themselves.~ Joel Miller When it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.~ John Viscount Morley We are human and our lot is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.~ Novalis To know the world one must construct it.~ Cesare Pavese One Galileo in two thousand years is enough.~ Pope Pius XII A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism (no final say); it means that we must allow people to err, even where the error offends and upsets, as it often will.~ Jonathan Rauch The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being viewed dogmatically, they are held tentatively, with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.~ Bertrand Russell It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions make it impossible to earn a living.~ Bertrand Russell I pray that no child of mine would ever descend into such a place as a library. They are indeed most dangerous places and unfortunate is she or he who is lured into such a hellhole of enjoyment, stimulus, facts, passion and fun.~ Willy Russell There is a lurking fear that some things are not meant “to be known,” that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make.~ Carl Sagan A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.~ George Bernard Shaw Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying “No” to any authority -- literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.~ Ignazio Silone The Internet…has become the voice of the people in the first genuine experiment in democracy yet conducted in America. It stands ready to serve every facet, every faction.~ Gerry Spence The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.~ Philip Dormer Stanhope The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.~ Saul Steinberg I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and to see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.~ Henry David Thoreau Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the blood of real civilization.~ G. M. Trevelyan Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.~ Mark Twain The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks he has found.~ Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print