"The difficulties of not knowing are always much greater than the effort of learning."

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Source : Andrew Loomis (2017). “The Successful Drawing”, p.29, EDITORA BIBLIOMUNDI SERVIÇOS DIGITAIS LTDA

Andrew Loomis

#Knowing Quotes #Effort Quotes #Difficulty Quotes

“A lot of tight Senate races out there. Let's hit those chips with another dash of salsa, Ed Bradley.”
“What's the best part of being a mathematician? I'm not a religious man, but it's almost like being in touch with God when you're thinking about mathematics. God is keeping secrets from us, and it's fun to try to learn some of the secrets.”

Source : Paul Richard Halmos, John Ewing, F.W. Gehring (1991). “PAUL HALMOS Celebrating 50 Years of Mathematics: Celebrating 50 Years of Mathematics”, p.21, Springer Science & Business Media
“Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.”

Source : "Adventures In Gnarly Computation". www.rudyrucker.com. October 2005.
“...China has announced that...it will hold the beach volleyball contest at the site of the 1989 massacre. Even Hitler didn't have the chutzpah to stage the 100-yard dash at Dachau.”
“In fact, many children come to autism clinics early on with GI/bowel disturbances.”

Source : "Big Think Panel Discussion on Autism". Interview with Susan Wilczynski, bigthink.com.
“At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as complacently as in the Middle Ages.”
“I never really liked the lyrics or the sameness of the music. It always seemed to have the same rhythm or whatever. But when it turned a little more rock, I kind of liked it. I like what Kid Rock did to country. I like all the modern, new stuff that's coming out, and it just so happens that my boyfriend is not a country player, but he was a rock musician.”
“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.”

Source : "This I Believe" with Edward R. Murrow, 1951.

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