"What clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors!"

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Source : Israel Zangwill (1908). “Dreamers of the Ghetto”, p.558, Library of Alexandria

Israel Zangwill

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“If you pay attention to when you are hungry, what your body wants, what you are eating, when you've had enough, you end the obsession because obsession and awareness cannot coexist.”

Source : Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.159, Simon and Schuster
“Creativity always dies a quick death in rooms that house conference tables.”
“Loyalty cannot be too liberally insisted upon. Altruism in nature remains an exception. It poses a puzzle, being in prima facie conflict with the survival of the fittest and most selfish.”
“You are not here in the world for yourself. You have been sent here for others. The world is waiting for you!”
“American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that is not a subject.”
“Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.”
“The universe is popping all over the place.”
“It seems to me that we must make a distinction between what is "objective" and what is "measurable" in discussing the question of physical reality, according to quantum mechanics. The state-vector of a system is, indeed, not measurable , in the sense that one cannot ascertain, by experiments performed on the system, precisely (up to proportionality) what the state is; but the state-vector does seem to be (again up to proportionality) a completely objective property of the system, being completely characterized by the results it must give to experiments that one might perform.”

Source : "The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds and The Laws of Physics". Book by Roger Penrose (p. 269.), 1989.

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