Gather Quotes (3)
Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating on the Thames. Intentions must be gathered from acts.
In James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1821), 139.
See also: | Act (2) | Duty (8) | Float (3) | Intention (5) | Learn (11) | Rule (18) | Science (463) | Serious (3)
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
IIsaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations (1988), 281.
See also: | Aspect (4) | Knowledge (341) | Life (169) | Sadness (2) | Science (463) | Society (33) | Wisdom (44)
There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
In The Stars in Their Courses? (1971), 36.
