"Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us the language and tools of probabilities. We have methods for analyzing and ranking opinion according to their likelihood of correctness. That is enough."

-- Robert A. Burton

#Children Quotes #Humility Quotes #Tools Quotes

“Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.”

Source : George William Curtis (1852). “Lotus-eating: a Summer Book”, p.191
“It's the ultimate for me not to see how it's made. I find it vulgar when you can distinguish how something is made. I used to be a student at the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture in Paris, and once I got to go to a Saint Laurent couture show. Everyone was always talking about how fabulous the tailoring was, but I was transfixed by this one particular dress. It was just a piece of fabric, but as the model was walking, you didn't know how she got into it, how it closed, where the seams were, and that, for me, was perfection. It stayed with me as a lifelong vision.”
“It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.”
“I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.”
“My background is in musical comedy.”
“Like Marxism, Thatcherism is, in fact, riddled with contradictions. Mrs. Thatcher, on the other hand, is free of doubt; she is the label on the can of worms.”
“Animals have been reduced to objects for production, and their lives are designed around our needs and desires.”
“Oh, I know all about my mother and me,' you may say. 'All that business with my mother was over years ago.' You don't and it wasn't.”

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