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“The scientist knows that the ultimate of everything is unknowable. No matter What subject you take, the current theory of it if carried to the ultimate becomes ridiculous. Time and space are excellent examples of this.”

Ifs Knows Matter Science Space Knowledge Subjects Example Theory Ultimate Scientist No Matter What Currents Ridiculous Excellent Time And Space

Author:Charles Proteus Steinmetz

“Happy thou that learnest from another's griefs, not to subject thyself to the same.”

Grief Subjects Example Thyself

Author:Tibullus

“Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there is no problem with his syntax, grammar, or vocabulary, even if he happens to be lying. ... On the other hand, our president is extraordinarily tongue-tied when he's trying, off the cuff, to sound a note of idealism, magnanimity or -- especially -- compassion.”

“Porgy is...an interesting example of what can be done by talent in spite of a bad setup. With a libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen, a man who should never have attempted it has written a work that has a considerable power.”

Men Should Has Beens Done Interesting Written Subjects Talent Example Accepted Chosen Spite Setups Gershwin

Author:George Gershwin

“I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All physicists, and a good many quite respectable mathematicians, are contemptuous about proof. I have heard Professor Eddington, for example, maintain that proof, as pure mathematicians understand it, is really quite uninteresting and unimportant, and that no one who is really certain that he has found something good should waste his time looking for proof.”

“Say, for example, you develop the ability to make parking meters disappear. It's probably easier to put a quarter in it. That would be the wisdom on the subject.”

Would Be Ability Subjects Example Buddhism Easier Disappear Quarters Parking Meter Parking Meters

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In my own professional work I have touched on a variety of different fields. I've done work in mathematical linguistics, for example, without any professional credentials in mathematics; in this subject I am completely self-taught, and not very well taught.”

Wells Different Self Done My Own Subjects Example Fields Taught Mathematics Variety Mathematical Touched Linguistics Credentials Self Taught Professional Work

Book:The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature

Source: The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature

“My family has had to move and change their name and have been subject to threats from right wing blogs calling for my son, for example, to be killed to get at me.”

Has Beens Moving Names Subjects Example Son Calling My Family Wings Threat My Son Blogs Right Wing

Author:Julian Assange

“The taboos that I have mentioned are extraordinarily harsh and numerous. They stand around nearly every subject that is genuinely important to man: they hedge in free opinion and experimentation on all sides. Consider, for example, the matter of religion. It is debated freely and furiously in almost every country in the world save the United States, but here the critic is silenced. The result is that all religions are equally safeguarded against criticism, and that all of them lose vitality. We protect the status quo, and so make steady war upon revision and improvement.”

“That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity, is to be attributed largely to an ill-adapted notation. If, for example, +1, -1, and the square root of -1 had been called direct, inverse and lateral units, instead of positive, negative and imaginary (or even impossible), such an obscurity would have been out of the question.”

Ifs Has Beens Views Impossible Subjects Example Negative Direct Roots Ill Point Of View Mysterious Squares Imaginary Units Obscurity Magnitude Adapted Inverse Square Roots

Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss

“[Lord Brougham's writings on the bee's cell contain] as striking examples of bad reasoning as are often to be met with in writings related to mathematical subjects.”

Writing Lord Subjects Example Mets Cells Mathematical Related Reasoning Bees

Author:James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

“We always say we are equal in front of death, but when you are rich, for example, and you have everybody taking care of you, I think that you suffer much less. It must be much more painful to die when you are poor than when you are rich. But when your heart is broken, you can be rich, poor, whatever - a broken heart, we are all equal in front of it. And I think there is no subject more serious.”

Thinking Heart Care Suffering Dies Poor Rich Subjects Fronts Example Serious Broken Equal Painful Rich Poor

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“By numberless examples it will evidently appear that human affairs are as subject to change and fluctuation as the waters of the sea agitated by the winds.”

Humans Water Sea Subjects Example Wind Affair Fluctuation

Author:Francesco Guicciardini

“After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and by collecting all facts which bore in any way on the variation of animals and plants under domestication and nature, some light might perhaps be thrown on the whole subject.”

Way Whole Facts Light Might Animal Subjects Example Return England Plant Following Thrown Bores Variation Collecting Geology

Book:Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution

Source: Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution