Incline Quotes - Page 6

• We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.]

  William Whewell

  Names, Needs, Use

  The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences vol. 1 (1840). Whewell coined scientist at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in the early 1830s.

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• If you incline towards God the passions that enslaves you will be rendered powerless.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Passion, Ifs, Powerless

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Feb 08, 2017

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• When a Pueblo Indian does not feel in the right mood, he stays away from the men's council. When an ancient Roman stumbled on the threshold as he left the house, he gave up his plans for the day. This seems to us senseless, but under primitive conditions of life such an omen inclines one at least to be cautious. When I am not in full control of myself, my bodily movements may be under a certain constraint; my attention is easily distracted; I am somewhat absent-minded. As a result I knock against something, stumble, let something fall, or forget something.

  Carl Jung

  Fall, Men, House

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• All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Effectiveness, Color, Individuality

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