“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
“Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow men to the same external analysis he would employ for any natural object, and when the human mind will contemplate itself not from within but from without.” MenMindHumansAbleNaturalSubjectsMankindObjectsBehaviorAdvantageFellowsExtraordinaryAnalysisHuman MindContemplatingHuman BehaviorFellow ManInvestigators Book:Essential works Source: Essential works
“When the mind is full of any one subject, that subject seems to recur with extraordinary frequency - it appears to pursue or to meet us at every turn: in every conversation that we hear in every book we open, in every newspaper we take up, the reigning idea recurs; and then we are surprised, and exclaim at these wonderful coincidences.” MindBookIdeasSeemsTurnsWonderfulSubjectsConversationExtraordinaryNewspapersPursueCoincidenceFrequency Book:Works of Maria Edgeworth: Harrington. Ormond. 1825 Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Harrington. Ormond. 1825
“No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities will recognize and esteem properly extraordinary abilities in their subjects and servants.” MatterAbilitySubjectsEqualNo Matter WhatExtraordinaryEqualityEsteemServantRulers Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“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
“How do you find a way to say what an extraordinary experience it is to be alive in this world? That is the kind of subject matter I try to work with.” WorldWayTryingKindMatterAliveSubjectsThis WorldPhotographyExtraordinarySubject Matter Author:Keith Carter
“A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile, 'How did you select that crocodile?'. Nonsense. He has selected you. The patient doesn't even select the symptoms unconsciously. That is an extraordinary exaggeration of the subject to say he was choosing such things. They get him.” WellsHappensAsksSubjectsExtraordinaryPatientNonsenseSymptomsSelectExaggerationSelectedCrocodilesAilments Author:Carl Jung
“By choosing a precise intersection between subject and time, he may transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the surreal.” MayRealSubjectsOrdinaryExtraordinaryPreciseSurrealIntersections Author:Constantine Manos
“If it were possible for any one person or group of persons to go through a photographic finishing plant's work at the end of a day, you could probably pull out the most extraordinary photographic exhibition we've ever seen. On almost any subject. The trouble is to find the things.” IfsPersonsEndsTroubleGroupsSubjectsPlantExtraordinaryFinishingExhibitions Author:Edward Steichen