"Only a fool of a scientist would dismiss the evidence and reports Â in front of him and substitute his own beliefs in their place."

-- Paul Kurtz

#Fool Quotes #Belief Quotes #Scientist Quotes

“I don't want to be another Jordan, Magic, or Isiah. When my career is over, I want to be able to look in the mirror and say 'I did it my way'.”
“Congress can grant a waiver [for General James Mattis ] and has done that once in history.”
“I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam,”
“Few things are more negative than thinking positive for no reason.”
“The indexing problem changes with each new book undertaken. To meet the needs of different classes of seekers and to suit various types of books, rules entirely satisfactory in one case must be varied in the next and perhaps ignored or even reversed for a third... Indexing is a highly complex intellectual process involving the use of language in a specific and somewhat artificial way, and that it is also to a considerable extent a matter of intuition, the workings of which cannot be reduced to fixed rules. It is 'knowing what but not knowing how'.”
“I always felt that with luxury came cruelty. I do my best to live a happy, prosperous life, but I don't indulge in a lot of luxury.”
“My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years”

Source : Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 12, 2003.
“The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.”

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