"A good plan will therefore include alternative actions, the choice between them being left open until the passage of time indicates which is feasible and which is not."

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Source : Carl Eckart (1984). “Our Modern Idol, Mathematical Science”

Carl Eckart

#Choices Quotes #Alternatives Quotes #Action Quotes

“I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.”
“By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.”
“At best, I consider flying an unavoidable necessity, a time to resurrect forgotten prayers and contemplate the end of all joy in a twisted howling heap of machinery; at worst, I rank it right up there with psychotic episodes and torture at the hands of malevolent strangers.”
“I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher.”
“Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.”
“Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.”
“I write a lot of children's verse and I think it delights in the language. It pleases people. It's very musical. It's very lyrical and that's certainly a very important aspect of poetry. But I think that a lot of it is verse. I write well-wrought verse.”
“I don't write for Christians. I write for people. I write so that if a Christian hears my music, they're going to be encouraged because I'm writing from the Christian worldview.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com

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