Charles Seife famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Zero is powerful because it is infinityâ€™s twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and yang. They are equally paradoxical and troubling. The biggest questions in science and religion are about nothingness and eternity, the void and the infinite, zero and infinity. The clashes over zero were the battles that shook the foundations of philosophy, of science, of mathematics, and of religion. Underneath every revolution lay a zero â€“ and an infinity.
-- Charles Seife

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Contrary to what our brains are telling us, there's no mystical force that imbues a winner with a streak of luck, nor is there a cosmic sense of justice that ensures that a loser's luck will turn around. The universe doesn't care one whit whether you've been winning or losing; each roll of the dice is just like every other.
-- Charles Seife

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If you want to convince the world that a fish can sense your emotions, only one statistical measure will suffice: the p-value.
-- Charles Seife

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If you want to get people to believe something really, really stupid, just stick a number on it.
-- Charles Seife

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If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take 'myself,' subtract 'movies,' and the result is 'zero.'
We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope with accelerations and decelerations and so on. So all of us trained so that we were probably in the best physical condition we had ever been in up until that point.
It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful.
If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun.
No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.
To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the poor animals is Satan's philosophy. In this age there is always enmity against poor animals, and therefore the poor creatures are always anxious. The reaction of the poor animals is being forced on human society, and therefore there is always strain of cold or hot war between men, individually, collectively or nationally.
Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.
The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy
As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.
A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.

Charles Seife famous quotes

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