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Instead in the absence of respect for human rights science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

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My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Author: John Charles Polanyi

Instead in the absence of respect for human rights science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

When as we must often do we fear science we really fear ourselves.