I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority.
More Quotes by Arthur Keith
The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.
The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended.
Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.
Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.