
“But one had to trust instruments over instincts, that was science.”
Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 2, “Areophany” (p. 70)
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Trump: My ‘Natural Instinct for Science’ Tells Me Climate Science Is Wrong
Jonathan Chait
New York Intelligencer
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/trump-i-have-a-natural-instinct-for-science.html
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“But one had to trust instruments over instincts, that was science.”
Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 2, “Areophany” (p. 70)
“Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.”
[Jean Rostand, The substance of men, Doubleday, 1962, 19]
“Religious education is demanded by the nation generally and by the instincts of human nature.”
Source: Speech to the Conservatives of Manchester (3 April 1872), quoted in Selected Speeches of the Late Right Honourable the Earl of Beaconsfield, Volume II, ed. T. E. Kebbel (1882), p. 505
Source: Talking Science: Language, Learning, and Values. 1990, p. 175; as cited in: Hanuscin, Deborah L., and Michele H. Lee. "Teaching Against the Mystique of Science: Literature Based Approaches in Elementary Teacher Education." Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum presentations (MU) (2010).
University of Havana address (2005)
Context: Man is born egotistical, a result of the conditioning of nature. Nature fills us with instincts; it is education that fills us with virtues. Nature makes us do things instinctively; one of these is the instinct for survival which can lead to infamy, while on the other side, our conscience can lead us to great acts of heroism. It doesn’t matter what each one of us is like, how different we are from each other, but when we unite we become one.
It is amazing that in spite of the differences between human beings, they can become as one in a single instant or they can be millions, and they can be a million strong just through their ideas. Nobody followed the Revolution as a cult to anyone or because they felt personal sympathy with any one person. It is only by embracing certain values and ideas that an entire people can develop the same willingness to make sacrifices of any one of those who loyally and sincerely try to lead them toward their destiny.
Englische Studien, Volume 19 https://archive.org/stream/englischestudien19leipuoft#page/157/mode/1up (1894), Leipzig; O.R. Reisland, "Byron's Daughter", p. 157-158.
“Mr. Ingleby: You don't need an argument for buying butter. It's a natural, human instinct.”
Murder Must Advertise (1933)