“The scientist has to take 95 per cent of his subject on trust. He has to because he can't possibly do all the experiments, therefore he has to take on trust the experiments all his colleagues and predecessors have done. Whereas a mathematician doesn't have to take anything on trust. Any theorem that's proved, he doesn't believe it, really, until he goes through the proof himself, and therefore he knows his whole subject from scratch. He's absolutely 100 per cent certain of it. And that gives him an extraordinary conviction of certainty, and an arrogance that scientists don't have.” KnowsGivingBelieveDoneWholeScienceCertainBeliefSubjectsScientistExtraordinaryConvictionProofExperimentsCertaintyArroganceCentsMathematicianColleaguesScratchesPredecessorsTheorems Author:Christopher Zeeman
“Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has acquired adult capacities and discipline. Art education should help build those capacities and that discipline without messing over the child.” PeopleShouldChildrenArtSaidHelpingArtistSubjectsDisciplineAdultsCapacitySacredConvictionInnocenceIrrationalArt EducationBaudelaire Author:Peter Schjeldahl
“Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to well-thought argument, and the warmth that proceeds from earnest appeal.” WellsClearSubjectsArgumentConvictionScriptureAppealsWarmthPreachingEarnestSermons Book:On Preaching Source: On Preaching
“The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest convictions in the public arena. Now it means those convictions are not even subject to rational debate.” MeanSubjectsConvictionArguingDebateToleranceRationalArena Author:Nancy Pearcey
“In the 1920s dramatists attacked their subjects as if the inequities could be resolved. Some of the traditional optimism of America lurked behind most of the early plays. But not now. There is no conviction now that the problem will be solved.” IfsPlayProblemAmericaBehindsSubjectsOptimismConvictionTraditional Author:Brooks Atkinson
“There is assuredly no more effectual method of clearing up one's own mind on any subject than by talking it over, so to speak, with men of real power and grasp, who have considered it from a totally different point of view.” MenMindDifferentRealSpeakViewsTalkingSubjectsMethodConvictionPoint Of ViewClearingReal PowerDifferent Points Of View Book:Collected essays Source: Collected essays
“In the books by Ruy-Sanchez we find again the erotic conviction that allows us to read with all the skin. The erotic, in his narratives is not a subject or a phrase, it is the clay of what they are made. In his novels every experience, trivial or extraordinary, breaths through the erotic.” MadeBookNovelSubjectsSkinsBreathsExtraordinaryConvictionNarrativePhrasesClayErotic Author:Alberto Manguel
“The truly educated man is not a man who knows a bit of everything, not even the man who knows all the details of all subjects (if such a thing were possible): the “whole man” in fact, may have little detailed knowledge of facts and theories...but he will be truly in touch with the centre. He will not be in doubt about his basic convictions, about his view on the meaning and purpose of his life. He may not be able to explain these matters in words, but the conduct of his life will show a certain sureness of touch which stems from this inner clarity.” IfsKnowsMenMayLittlesMatterWholeFactsShowsAblePurposeCertainBitsViewsDoubtSubjectsTheoryDetailsConvictionEducatedClarityPurpose Of LifeStemCentreEducated ManSmall Is Beautiful Author:E. F. Schumacher
“Whoever is led to believe that species are mutable will do good service by conscientiously expressing his conviction; for only thus can the load of prejudice by which this subject is overwhelmed be removed.” BelieveSubjectsPrejudiceSpeciesConvictionLoadOverwhelmedGood Service Book:On the Origin of Species Source: On the Origin of Species