Karl Deutsch famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Error often is to be preferred to indecision.
Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, popularity or the amount of its yearly offerings.
Error sometimes supplies the surprise that makes life interesting.
In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.
We know the laws of trial and error, of large numbers and probabilities. We know that these laws are part of the mathematical and mechanical fabric of the universe, and that they are also at play in biological processes. But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?
I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.
The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.
...the original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and continue to live...
Breed is stronger than pasture.
Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.

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