Paul Nitze famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.
-- Paul Nitze

#Errors #Trying #Forget
We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could advance much faster if we abolished our rules on human experimentation in clinical trials, as Nazi researchers did.
-- Paul Nitze

#Progress #Trials #Today
Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945 and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.
-- Paul Nitze

#War #Japan #Russia
I have been around at a time when important things needed to be done.
-- Paul Nitze

#Life #Important #Done
The ultimate goal of the whole policy of peaceful co-existence was to make progress on the basic goal laid down by Lenin of a world largely composed of socialist, communist states, in which the Soviet Union would be the prime mover.
-- Paul Nitze

#Goal #Peaceful #Progress
Soviets always use words which mean almost the reverse of what they mean to us. So peaceful co-existence does not in any way mean peaceful.
-- Paul Nitze

#Mean #Peaceful #Doe
The fact is, I see no compelling reason why we should not unilaterally get rid of our nuclear weapons. To maintain them is costly and adds nothing to our security. I can think of no circumstances under which it would be wise for the United States to use nuclear weapons, even in retaliation for their prior use against us. What, for example, would our targets be? It is impossible to conceive of a target that could be hit without large-scale destruction of many innocent people?
-- Paul Nitze

#Wise #Thinking #Compelling Reason

It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are due to the commission of logical errors, rather than to a conscious desire on the part of their authors to go beyond the limits of experience.
Of all the pitfalls in our paths and the tremendous delays and wanderings off the track, I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistakes, all that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
A collection of errors does not make a truth: quality cannot stem from quantity â€“ a value is not a weight. The reasons of the majority cannot be taken as good reasons.
I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.
It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.
If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.
Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.
Good satire goes beyond the specific point itâ€™s trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, youâ€™re not left believing everything theyâ€™re telling you.
I couldn't forget. I couldn't break. She had the power to break me. No one had ever been given that power, ever.
The one word you should forget when you start a new project is the word 'I' - you need to replace that word 'I' with the idea of 'everybody else.

Paul Nitze famous quotes

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