“Although people who had achieved a great deal in science and technology talked of the inscrutability of creativity, I was not convinced and disbelieved them immediately and without argument. Why should everything but creativity be open to scrutiny? What kind of process can this be which unlike all others is not subject to control?…What can be more alluring than the discovery of the nature of talented thought and converting this thinking from occasional and fleeting flashes into a powerful and controllable fire of knowledge.” PeopleThinkingShouldKindProcessDealsPowerfulCreativityTechnologyFireSubjectsDiscoveryArgumentConvincedFlashFleetingOccasionalScrutinyScience And TechnologyConvertingAlluring Author:Genrich Altshuller
“If you have reservations about the system and want to change it, the democratic argument goes, do so within the system: put yourself forward as a candidate for political office, subject yourself to the scrutiny and the vote of fellow citizens. Democracy does not allow for politics outside the democratic system. In this sense, democracy is totalitarian.” IfsWantDoePoliticalDemocracySubjectsCitizensOfficeArgumentVoteFellowsDemocraticCandidatesScrutinyReservations Author:J. M. Coetzee
“The Patriot Act allows Federal agents to look at public and university library patron circulation records, books checked out, magazines consulted, all subject to government scrutiny. There used to be a time in this country when we were worried whether our young people knew how to read. Now some in our government are more worried that government agents be able to find out what people are reading.” PeopleLooksBookCountryGovernmentAbleYoungUsedReadingRecordsSubjectsLibraryUniversityUsed To BeMagazinesAgentsWorriedPatriotScrutinyCirculationPatronPatriot Act Author:Dennis Kucinich
“The underlying reason for convergence seems to be that all organisms are under constant scrutiny of natural selection and are also subject to the constraints of the physical and chemical factors that severely limit the action of all inhabitants of the biosphere. Put simply, convergence shows that in a real world not all things are possible.” WorldRealReasonShowsSeemsActionNaturalSubjectsLimitsAll ThingsConstantFactorsChemicalsReal WorldOrganismsSelectionConstraintsNatural SelectionScrutinyConvergenceBiosphere Author:Simon Conway Morris
“The whole [of religion] is a riddle, an ænigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the onlyresult of our most accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject.” WholeReligionDoubtMysterySubjectsJudgmentUncertaintyAccurateRiddleScrutinyInexplicable Author:David Hume
“The whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the only result of ourmost accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject. But such is the frailty of human reason, and such the irresistible contagion of opinion, that even this deliberate doubt could scarcely be upheld; did we not enlarge our view, and opposing one species of superstition to another, set them a quarrelling; while we ourselves, during their fury and contention, happily make our escape into the calm, though obscure, regions of philosophy.” HumansReasonPhilosophyWholeResultsViewsOpinionDoubtMysterySubjectsJudgmentPhilosophicalSpeciesCalmUncertaintyRegionsSuperstitionsAccurateObscureDeliberateFuryIrresistibleOpposingRiddleScrutinyContentionInexplicableFrailtyEnigmaContagionHuman Reason Author:David Hume
“When you're at drama school you spend so much time working on amazing texts and analyzing them, digging into them, and figuring out why it happens, why you are being asked to say what you're saying, and what the words mean. But then when you start working, most of the stuff would just fall apart if you subject it to that kind of scrutiny.” IfsKindMeanHappensSchoolFallStuffSubjectsDramaFalling ApartDiggingScrutinyAnalyzing Author:Jared Harris
“It's a little bit hard to have personal things subject to public scrutiny, and it's a pressure that other people aren't under, but then they're under a lot of pressures that we're not under.” PeopleLittlesHardBitsSubjectsLittle BitPressureScrutinyPersonal Things Author:John Malkovich