Quotes
Authors
Bas van Fraassen

"To develop an empiricist account of science is to depict it as involving a search for truth only about the empirical world, aboutwhat is actual and observable.... It must involve throughout a resolute rejection of the demand for an explanation of the regularities in the observable course of nature, by means of truths concerning a reality beyond what is actual and observable, as a demand which plays no role in the scientific enterprise."

-- Bas van Fraassen

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“And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“The dead leave us starving with mouths full of love.â€ from â€œMemoriam”
“The teachers who get "burned out" are not the ones who are constantly learning, which can be exhilarating, but those who feel they must stay in control and ahead of the students at all times.”

Source : Frank Smith (1986). “Insult to Intelligence: The Bureaucratic Invasion of Our Classrooms”, Heinemann Educational Books
“Think of anger as a muscle. The way you express anger isn't the way that I do, or you. If you have a good director, you will find that he's getting you to use an entirely different muscle that you never even knew you had - it's real hard and sore, then after a while it becomes normal. And you discover all these new muscles when you enter a new character - that's what a director does for you.”
“We are afraid that our adult sexuality will somehow damage our kids, that itâ€™s inappropriate or dangerous. But whom are we protecting? Children who see their primary caregivers at ease expressing their affection (discreetly, within appropriate boundaries) are more likely to embrace sexuality with the healthy combination of respect, responsibility, and curiosity it deserves. By censoring our sexuality, curbing our desires, or renouncing them altogether, we hand our inhibitions intact to the next generation.”
“People who become comedians… come from pain, come from conflict.”
“To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.”
“Something about the way you looked at me made me think for a moment that maybe we were meant to be .”

Source : "Song: Desperately ("Hotel Paper ")". June 24, 2003.

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