“Historical science is not worse, more restricted, or less capable of achieving firm conclusions because experiment, prediction, and subsumption under invariant laws of nature do not represent its usual working methods. The sciences of history use a different mode of explanation, rooted in the comparative and observational richness in our data. We cannot see a past event directly, but science is usually based on inference, not unvarnished observation (you don't see electrons, gravity, or black holes either).” DifferentUsePastLawBlackAchieveEventsCapableMethodExperimentsHolesConclusionObservationDataFirmExplanationUsualGravityRootedPredictionsLaws Of NatureRichnessBlack HoleElectronsInferencePast Events Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“The greater the crime perpetrated by the leadership, the less likely it is that the people will ever believe their leaders to be capable of perpetrating such an event.” PeopleBelieveLeaderGreaterEventsCrimeCapable Author:Adolf Hitler
“Civilization has imposed countless restrictions and conventions on each of us, with the result that the subconscious in the majority of us has become a storage room without a key. We are forced to suppress or forget so many events and ideas and thoughts that those to which we should have access are lost in the welter. However, there are people who seem capable of unlocking this part of their minds and extracting relevant information.” PeopleShouldMindIdeasSeemsLostForgetRoomsResultsEventsInformationKeysCivilizationCapableShould HaveMajorityAccessRelevantConventionsSubconsciousRestrictionStorageUnlocking Book:The weak-eyed bat Source: The weak-eyed bat
“Basically, if the mind stays in the present, it's impossible to worry. Upon careful consideration, it becomes clear that human beings are capable of worrying only about an event that has already transpired or one that may take place in the future (although the occurrence might have just happened or may be about to happen in the next instant). The present moment contains no time or space for worry.” IfsMindHumansMayMomentsMightHappensNextHuman BeingsSpaceWorryClearMeditationImpossibleHappenedEventsCapableYogaCarefulInstantConsiderationPresent Moment Author:H. E Davey
“I wonder how many marriages are fractured and damaged beyond repair by complacency rather than any single traumatic event. One day you wake up and realize that the distance between you and your spouse has grown to such an enormous width that neither of you are capable of clearing the distance. No matter how much speed you build up, or how far you can jump, it's just there. Gaping and unforgiving.” MatterRealizingWonderEventsOne DayCapableWake UpDistanceSpeedEnormousSpouseComplacencyClearingUnforgivingWidthTraumatic Events Author:Tracey Garvis-Graves
“We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such events do not exist.” MeanDoeImagineEventsCapableConnectedExplanationMemories Dreams Reflections Book:Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal Source: Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal
“Editors, for the most part, don't care ''what'' you've done, or how astounding the physical event may have been. You need to write well. Many others are capable of doing what you have done (probably), so you must write better than they.” NeedsWritingWellsMayHas BeensDoneCareEventsCapableDon't CareEditors Author:Tim Cahill
“You can care very much about someone without being capable of becoming their primary caregiver in the event of their parents' untimely death.” CareParentEventsBecomingCapablePrimariesCaregiversUntimely Death Author:Mallory Ortberg
“Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?” IfsFeelsI CanRunningKidsWantedPoliticalDifferencesEventsOfficeMajorsCapableCurrentsEngagedMaking A DifferenceWhy NotPolitical ScienceCurrent EventsRunning For Office Author:Queen Latifah
“I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either for himself or for others; there is in love a sense of weakness, a desire to protect, an eagerness to do good and to give pleasure--if not unselfishness, at all events a selfishness which marvellously conceals itself; it has in it a certain diffidence.” IfsGivingBelieveDesireCertainPleasureEmotionEventsProtectEssentialsCapableWeaknessSelfishnessTendernessEagernessUnselfishnessDiffidence Book:The Moon and Sixpence Source: The Moon and Sixpence
“Luke [the gospel writer] screws up his dating by tactlessly mentioning events that historians are capable of independently checking. There was indeed a census under Governor Quirinius - a local census, not one decreed by Caesar Augustus for the Empire as a whole - but it happened too late in 6 AD, long after Herod's death.” LongWholeReligionHappenedEventsLateCapableDatingLocalsToo LateEmpiresHistorianAdsGovernorsScrewsLukeScrew UpsAugustusCensusHerodAugustus Caesar Author:Richard Dawkins