"Online reaction is very different than real-world reaction."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Joel Stein

#Real Quotes #Different Quotes #World Quotes

“I am an experimenter, or rather I used to be one. Then I stopped working, and since then people think I am a theoretician.”
“Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker, in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle.”
“I have killed two people since midnight. I haven't slept in over 24 hours. So maybe you should be a little more afraid of me than you are now.”

Source : "24/ 8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m". www.imdb.com. 2002.
“Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by its performance; and it is thus that a knowledge of nature, having all the certainty which the senses are competent to inspire, has been attained--a knowledge which maintains a strict neutrality toward all philosophical systems and concerns itself not with the genesis or a priori grounds of ideas.”

Source : Chauncey Wright (2003). “Philosphical Discussions”, p.47, A&C Black
“I can't do impressions.”
“I'd put a lot of work into playing guitar, and was thinking I was pretty damn good. But Hendrix came along and destroyed everyone.”
“After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?”
“Those mutually opposed manifestos are written with the same eloquence, they breathe the same virtuous indignation, and one is just as sincere as the other; that is to say both of them are equally brazen in their lies, and it is only fools who are deceived by them. Sensible persons, all those who have had some political experience, do not even take the trouble of reading such manifestos.”

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