"That which is provable, ought not to be believed in science without proof."

-- Richard Dedekind

“Imagination can help you reach into the heavens to grasp an idea, bring it down to earth, and make it work.”
“When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Describing one competitive advantage of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. It has no fear.”
“I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action.”
“If you go down to Texas, people are real proud about and they rep Texas.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“For twenty-seven years I was witness to the spiritual deterioration of my own father, watching day after day how everything human in him left him and how gradually he turned into a grim monument to his own self ...”

Source : Svetlana Alliluyeva (1969). “Only One Year”
“I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.”
“Decoration is asked to be 'merely' pleasing, 'merely' embellishing, and the 'functional' logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such 'mereness.' This is part of the pity of Modernism, one of the sacrifices it enjoins...”

Source : Clement Greenberg, Robert C. Morgan (2007). “Clement Greenberg, Late Writings”, Univ Of Minnesota Press

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