"Belief may be a regrettably unavoidable biological weakness to be kept under the control of criticism: but commitment is for Popper an outright crime."

-- Imre Lakatos

#Regret Quotes #Commitment Quotes #Criticism Quotes

“Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others.”
“During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.”

Source : Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.81, Delphi Classics
“the end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions - and the ending of it snaps those taut inner wires.”
“He who trades pacing for gimmicky open-world freedom deserves neither.”
“The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.”
“The sole argument generally given to justify this picture of the world is that perturbative string theories have a massless spin two mode and thus could provide an explanation of gravity, if one ever managed to find an underlying theory for which perturbative string theory is the perturbative expansion.”
“When you make successful movies, everyone on set takes care of you, everybody is so nice and you disconnect from reality.”
“I can think of nothing worse than a think-tank where everybody agreed.”

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