"If something cannot go on for ever, it will stop"

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Source : Herbert Stein (1998). “What I Think: Essays on Economics, Politics, and Life”, p.32, American Enterprise Institute

Herbert Stein

#Goes On Quotes #Economics Quotes

“There is no one so lonely than a man who loves only himself.”
“What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.”
“There is no area of the world that should not be investigated by scientists. There will always remain some questions that have not been answered. In general, these are the questions that have not yet been posed.”
“I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.”

Source : Rumer Godden (1979). “Five For Sorrow, Ten For Joy”
“There are in fact four very significant stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge.”

Source : "Teaching the pursuit of science". Book by John H. Woodburn and Ellsworth Scott Obourn, p. 70, 1965.
“If you don't understand something, break it apart; reduce it to its components. Since they are simpler than the whole,you have a much better chance of understanding them; and when you have succeeded in doing that, put the whole thing back together again.”

Source : Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.54, Harvard University Press
“Then you have to answer to your car owner, you have to answer to the sponsor, you have to answer to all these folks why you're not racing. But that's the only way it will ever stop.”
“I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid.”

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