Stephen J. Dubner famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
The scream of the twelve-inch shrapnel is more penetrating than the hiss from a thousand Jewish newspaper vipers. Therefore let them go on with their hissing.
I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.
The worst happens, and life still goes on.
The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.

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