"Theorizing is of course essential to make progress in understanding, but theorizing in the absence of knowing available relevant facts is not very productive."

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Source : "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

Patricia Churchland

#Knowing Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Progress Quotes

“The heart overwhelmed by grief knows no rest ...”
“The parties happen when we book the studio. That's a safe place. Get alcohol, food, girls, homies, and have these small listening parties while I'm recording. And that energy always gets into the music.”

Source : Interview with David Drake, pitchfork.com. October 15, 2014.
“A half century ago Herbert Wechsler could justify the legal right of deadly force self-defense in terms of the "universal judgment that there is no social interest in preserving the lives of the aggressors at the cost of those of their victims." That is not a universal judgment today.”
“Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.”

Source : "Transcript: ABC News' Martha Raddatz Interviews Tim Hetherington". Interview with Martha Raddatz, abcnews.go.com. September 14, 2010.
“Knowing how to keep someone motivated and how to keep a connection are skills humans have learned and evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. A robot can't figure out whether you can do one more push-up, or how to motivate you to actually do it.”
“How can you be alienated without first having been connected?”

Source : Donald Barthelme (1982). “Sixty stories”, Plume
“It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.”

Source : Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.468, Simon and Schuster
“I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people out.”

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