The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Une civilisation sans la Science, ce serait aussi absurde qu'un poisson sans bicyclette.

We are challenging the philosophy of scientific materialism, not science itself,

The progress of this famous plant has been something like the progress of truth; suspected at first, though very palatable to those who had courage to taste it; resisted as it encroached; abused as its popularity seemed to spread; and establishing its

Some people, when there’s a threat of everything they have being ripped away at a moments notice, they place value on the things they can keep with them, or find anywhere, so they can say ‘these are my things, nobody else can touch them.’