"The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics."

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Source : Julius Thomas Fraser (1987). “Time, the Familiar Stranger”, p.358, Univ of Massachusetts Press

Julius Thomas Fraser

#Responsibility Quotes #Science Quotes #Tasks Quotes

“Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.”
“Development does not take place in Washington, DC. Development takes place in the rest of the world.”
“When the War ended in 1945, I started selling vacuum cleaners door to door. Then I sold insurance door to door. I even tried selling cars.”
“Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career.”
“It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.”
“Football is a religion and Saturday is the holy day of obligation.”
“If the American people had known the truth - that Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other top administration officials knew that the Benghazi attack was an al-Qaida terrorist attack from the get-go - and yet lied and covered this fact up - Mitt Romney might very well be president. These documents also point to connection between the collapse in Libya and the ISIS war - and confirm that the U.S. knew remarkable details about the transfer of arms from Benghazi to Syrian jihadists.”
“Current intelligence-testing practices require examinees to answer but not to pose questions. In requiring only the answering of questions, these tests are missing a vital half of intelligence- the asking of questions...”

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