“It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking bravery... Adults know too much about failure; they're more cynical and resigned and fearful.” IfsKnowsChildrenReasonFactsNaturalWonderToo MuchHigherAdultsLogicBraveryRateCancerCuresCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningCynicalFearfulOntologyResigned Author:Lance Armstrong
“You can't. Do you hear me? You think you've figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you changed your mind. Now you're certain. You're so... sloppy. You don't know anything. The book, the math, the dates, the writing, all that stuff you decided with your buddies, it's just evidence. It doesn't finish the job. It doesn't prove anything.” ThinkingKnowsWritingMindBookRunningJobsCertainStuffChangedProveEvidenceDecidedLogicMathCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningBuddyOntologySloppyYou Changed Author:David Auburn
“My theory stands as firm as a rock; every arrow directed against it will return quickly to its archer. How do I know this? Because I have studied it from all sides for many years; because I have examined all objections which have ever been made against the infinite numbers; and above all because I have followed its roots, so to speak, to the first infallible cause of all created things.” KnowsYearsFirstsMadeSpeakCausesSidesNumbersRocksTheoryReturnRootsLogicInfiniteCertaintyUncertaintyFirmReasoningArrowsObjectionsInfallibleOntologyArcher Author:Georg Cantor
“This view [of the infinite], which I consider to be the sole correct one, is held by only a few. While possibly I am the very first in history to take this position so explicitly, with all of its logical consequences, I know for sure that I shall not be the last!” KnowsFirstsLastsViewsPositionConsequenceLogicInfiniteCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningLogicalSoleOntology Author:Georg Cantor
“It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply; but it is true likewise, that these ideas are always incomplete, and that at least, till we have compared them with realities, we do not know them to be just. As we see more, we become possessed of more certainties, and consequently gain more principles of reasoning, and found a wider base of analogy.” KnowsMayIdeasRealityFoundPrinciplesKnowledgeGreaterGainsCertaintyReasoningDescriptionPossessedIncompleteExhibitsAnalogies Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets