"The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries ago, when some people suspended their search for absolute truth and began instead to ask how things worked, modern science was born. Curiously, it was by abandoning the search for absolute truth that science began to make progress, opening the material universe to human exploration."

-- Heinz Pagels

#People Quotes #Simplicity Quotes #Progress Quotes

“The last thing you want to do, unless it's a very unusual situation, is to invest money.”

Source : "John W. Kluge, 95, RIP. Entrepreneur, Benefactor to Columbia University" by Dave Lerner, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2010.
“Well, the best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period. When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved. And it's hard, man. They brainwash you to think you're doing the right thing.”
“Growing up with my dad being a musician, it seemed like a male centric world to me. I just didn't know many girls playing guitar.”
“A man doesn't amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence, that's all: evidence that if he buckled down and worked hard, he might some day do something really worth doing.”
“Day-thoughts feed nightly dreams; And sorrow tracketh wrong, As echo follows song.”
“In the strict formulation of the law of causalityâ€”if we know the present, we can calculate the futureâ€”it is not the conclusion that is wrong but the premise. On an implication of the uncertainty principle.”
“When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts frustrated, it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.”

Source : Robert Massie; Suzanne Massie (1975). “Journey”
“There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.”

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