"The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate it."

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Source : Robert M. Sapolsky (1997). “The Trouble with Testosterone: And Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament”, Scribner Book Company

Robert M. Sapolsky

#Purpose Quotes #Mystery Quotes #Wonder Quotes

“He's never fought with religion; what is the point of railing against such beauty, such intimate theatre, such chime of eternity? He can treasure it without believing in it.”

Source : Ian McDonald (2010). “The Dervish House”, p.160, Hachette UK
“Drama, it would be as if you wrote some poetry. You'd run the risk of being embarrassed if people read it, because you're pouring your heart out and you're not mitigating it with any humor or anything.”
“The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union.”
“School and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to be at least paint as I wanted to and say what I wanted to when I painted as that seemed to be the only thing I could do that didn't concern anybody but myself. I found that I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn't say in any other way things that I had no words for.”
“I think Memento movie was hard because people didn't get it, they just didn't understand it. Not from the stage when we read the script and liked it. It's sort of a famous story now how we finished the movie and showed it to distributors and nobody wanted it. So it wasn't just they didn't get the script, they really didn't even understand the movie when it was done. But I think that was a particularly hard one. I don't think it was harder because we were girls, but I do think obviously there are particular challenges to working in a male-dominated industry.”
“Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed.”

Source : Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.161, Verso
“It isn't a given that the companies that provide mobility today will also be the ones to do so tomorrow. Every company has to work hard to make this happen.”
“I dont see gold as a player in a healthy economy.”

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