Will Quotes (5)
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
From a British television interview (30 Mar 1978) quoted in The Listener (6 Apr 1978). In Alfred J. Kolatch, Great Jewish Quotations (1996), 87.
Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
Mad Love (1937) translated by Mary Ann Caws (1988), 25.
See also: | Art And Science (17) | Desire (12) | Industry (15) | Nothing (11) | Possession (5) | Retain (3)
The capital ... shall form a fund, the interest of which shall be distributed annually as prizes to those persons who shall have rendered humanity the best services during the past year. ... One-fifth to the person having made the most important discovery or invention in the science of physics, one-fifth to the person who has made the most eminent discovery or improvement in chemistry, one-fifth to the one having made the most important discovery with regard to physiology or medicine, one-fifth to the person who has produced the most distinguished idealistic work of literature, and one-fifth to the person who has worked the most or best for advancing the fraternization of all nations and for abolishing or diminishing the standing armies as well as for the forming or propagation of committees of peace.
From will (27 Nov 1895), in which he established the Nobel Prizes, as translated in U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Consular Reports, Issues 156-159 (1897), 331.
See also: | Benefit (4) | Confer (2) | Distribution (4) | Fund (2) | Humanity (9) | Interest (6) | Mankind (34) | Nobel Prize (8)
The dedicated physician is constantly striving for a balance between personal, human values [and] scientific realities and the inevitabilities of God's will.
'The Brotherhood of Healing', address to the National Conference of Christians and Jews (12 Feb 1958). In James Beasley Simpson, Contemporary Quotations (1964), 177.
See also: | Balance (5) | Dedicated (2) | God (121) | Human (37) | Inevitable (3) | Personal (2) | Physician (138) | Reality (20) | Strive (3) | Value (10)
William James used to preach the 'will to believe'. For my part, I should wish to preach the 'will to doubt.' … What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite.
Sceptical Essays (1928). In Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain (1986), 51.
