"Scientists are stuck in this belief that we tell people probabilities, not absolute answers."

-- Stephen Schneider

#People Quotes #Answers Quotes #Belief Quotes

“I grew up in traditional black patriarchal culture and there is no doubt that Iâ€™m going to take a great many unconscious, but present, patriarchal complicities to the grave because it so deeply ensconced in how I look at the world. Therefore, very much like alcoholism, drug addiction, or racism patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.”
“Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music”
“Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.”
“If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.”
“By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.”
“Science remains the author of our major problem, in its gift of tremendous power that has been terribly abused; but for the wise use of this power we need more, not less, of the objective dispassionate scientific spirit. For our philosophical purposes we need more of its integrity and its basic humility, its respect at once for the fact and the mystery.”
“The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.”
“A big book is a big misfortune.”

Source : Fragment 465; translation by A. W. Bulloch, in P. E. Easterling and B. M. W. Knox (eds.) "The Cambridge History of Classical Literature" (1989) vol. 1, part 4, p. 30,

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