"A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant."

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Source : The Physicist's Conception of Nature edited by Jagdish Mehra (p. 618)

Manfred Eigen

#Alternatives Quotes #May Quotes #Possibility Quotes

“I remembered my question! Did you find a partner?”
“You realize how much the relationship when kids are young can suffer. And it's important to make sure that you are able to spend some time with each other. As a father, the best thing you can do for the kid is to love the mom. Even as a parent, I believe that loving the mother is the most important thing. And even parents who maybe aren't together I think that's important for them as well to respect each other and to be kind to each other, because I think it does so much in who they would pick to be around, or how they feel about themselves.”
“I like to allow accidents to happen, not to force them, and yet not let myself feel miserable if they do happen, because they are so often the best things.”

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“It is important to grasp that boredom is one of the most common - and undesirable - consequences of 'unicameralism'. Boredom is a feeling of being 'dead inside'; that is to say, loss of contact with our instincts and feelings.”
“When the sappy boughs Attire themselves with blooms, sweet rudiments Of future harvest.”
“[Buckminster Fuller] started talking about it far enough afterwards, an audience that was far enough from when they - when the air flow and the Zephyr and these cars in the time period that were made by mainstream automakers. It was far enough in the future, far enough after that point that nobody really bothered to fact-check.”
“For the believer in divine creation, the open question of the Mystery of Being is like an open wound. It stings and gapes, and the believer cannot rest till it be healed up, closed up, smeared with the soothing balm of an answer, even if his doctrine be a sophisticated one like Aquinas's or that of the latest Liberal Protestant theologian.”
“I never could have planned this, and now I'm in my ideal situation career-wise and just sort of where I am in my life, and I'm super happy with how everything's going.”

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