“I would confront the thieves, I thought, and the self-evident justice of my case would cause them to crumble before me. I don't know why I expected such extravagant results from the application of mere justice. That kind of calculation is seldom borne out by worldly events.” KnowsKindSelfCausesJusticeResultsCasesEventsMereExpectedApplicationThievesEvidentWorldlyCalculationsExtravagant Author:Robert Charles Wilson
“This is a rather unusual situation in physics. We perform approximate calculations which are valid only in some regime and this gives us the exact answer. This is a theorist's heaven- exact results with approximate methods.” GivingScienceHeavenAnswersResultsSituationMathematicsMethodPhysicsUnusualRegimesCalculationsTheorists Author:Nathan Seiberg
“Our inner weighing of evidence is not a careful mathematical calculation resulting in a probabilistic estimate of truth, but more like a whirlpool blending of the objective and the personal. The result is a set of beliefs - both conscious and unconscious - that guide us in interpreting all the events of our lives.” BeliefResultsOur LivesEventsConsciousEvidenceCarefulGuidesObjectivesMathematicalUnconsciousCalculationsInterpretingWeighingConscious And UnconsciousWhirlpools Book:War of the Worldviews: Where Science and Spirituality Meet -- and Do Not Source: War of the Worldviews: Where Science and Spirituality Meet -- and Do Not