"Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all."

-- Norbert Wiener

#Eye Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Made Quotes

“I never let the worst things in life get the best of me. So take these testes and, ummm...open sesame.”
“I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.”

Source : "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.
“There are a million things one might do with a block of wood. But what do you think might happen if someone, just once, believed in it?”
“Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring. When they get excited you can see it in their eyes.”
“Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.”

Source : Song: Each Small Candle
“I'm a Midwesterner! Not being able to have a cheeseburger once in a while would be torture!”
“I feel like a sickness and dystrophy is growing in people, like people are getting sicker, something about our society, something about our psychological structures. Weâ€™re not whole.”

Source : Interview with Kate Bosworth, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2011.
“The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.”

Source : Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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