"Science is not about what's true or what might be true, science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence."

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Lee Smolin

#Believe Quotes #People Quotes #Viewpoints Quotes

“Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.”

Source : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". "The Proof", episode of "NOVA", www.pbs.org. November 01, 2000.
“The point is... to live one's life in the full complexity of what one is, which is something much darker, more contradictory, more of a maelstrom of impulses and passions, of cruelty, ecstacy, and madness, than is apparent to the civilized being who glides on the surface and fits smoothly into the world.”

Source : Thomas Nagel (2010). “Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament: Essays 2002-2008”, p.34, Oxford University Press
“I won't do anything that is connected with drugs. I've seen drugs ruin so many people's lives. I don't think there's anything cute about drugs. And I don't believe in celebrating them.”
“In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design.”

Source : Otl Aicher (2015). “The World as Design: Writings of Design”, p.6, John Wiley & Sons
“Be kind. Be courteous. Love others and be happy. It's that simple.”
“Pieces. Isn't that what all of life is anyway? Shards. Bits. Moments. Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more?”

Source : Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.80, Macmillan
“the rest of my days I spend wandering: wondering what, anyway, was that sticky infusion, that rank flavor of blood, that poetry, by which I lived?”

Source : Galway Kinnell (2001). “A New Selected Poems”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“...it is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish;”

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