"The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles."

-- Ronald Fisher

#Stress Quotes #Book Quotes #Teaching Quotes

“Although I am a strong political conservative, I now believe that the costs of our fruitless struggle against illegal drugs are not worth the modest benefits likely to be achieved.”
“The music is in no way politically based - I'm not trying to make a point about sampling. It may bring up issues but I'm not trying to push it on anyone.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The desire to run comes from deep within us - from the unconscious, the instinctive, the intuitive.”
“Contemporary philosophers have exercised themselves with the problem of our knowledge of other minds. Enmeshed in the dogma of the ghost in the machine, they have found it impossible to discover any logically satisfactory evidence warranting one person in believing that there exist minds other than his own. I can witness what your body does, but I cannot witness what your mind does, and my pretensions to infer from what your body does to what your mind does all collapse, since the premises for such inferences are either inadequate or unknowable.”
“Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice.”
“People need meaning as much as they need air. Lucky for us, we can give meaning to each other for free. Just by being alive.”

Source : Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse”, p.158, Simon and Schuster
“A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.”
“True felicity consists of its own consciousness.”

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