“Science has a huge advantage over “other ways of knowing”: built-in methods of self-correction.”
Jerry Coyne book Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible
Source: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 223
“The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.”
Source: 1910s, Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (1919), Ch. 7: Rational, Real and Complex Numbers
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“We used the home advantage to our advantage.”
Phil Brown (footballer) (1959) English association football player and manager
7-Jan-2006, DCFC website
The quotes come thick and fast.
Jean de La Bruyère book Les Caractères
Aphorism 27
Les Caractères (1688), De la chaire
Context: What a vast advantage has a speech over a written composition. Men are imposed upon by voice and gesture, and by all that is conducive to enhance the performance. Any little prepossession in favor of the speaker raises their admiration, and then they do their best to comprehend him; they commend his performance before he has begun, but they soon fall off asleep, doze all the time he is preaching, and only wake to applaud him. An author has no such passionate admirers; his works are read at leisure in the country or in the solitude of the study; no public meetings are held to applaud him.... However excellent his book may be, it is read with the intention of finding it but middling; it is perused, discussed, and compared to other works; a book is not composed of transient sounds lost in the air and forgotten; what is printed remains.
“The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense — he is always satisfied with himself.”
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“We may with advantage at times forget what we know.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 234
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Marvin Bower (1903–2003) American business theorist
A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence. ...
A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge. ...
A business of high principle develops better and more profitable relations with customers, competitors, and the general public, because it can be counted on to do the right thing at all times. By the consistently ethical character of its actions, it builds a favorable image.
Source: The Will to Manage (1966), p. 26
Robert Gilpin (1930–2018) Political scientist
Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter Five, The Politics Of International Trade, p. 228
Charles James Fox (1749–1806) British Whig statesman
Letter to Denis O'Bryen (16 July 1800), quoted in L. G. Mitchell, Charles James Fox (London: Penguin, 1997), p. 167.
1800s
