Roberto Unger Quotes

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.

Roberto Unger

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• Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Why
  • Free

• The historian is a prophet looking backward.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Looking
  • Prophet
  • Backward

• It's nice to work with your own alma mater.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Work
  • Nice
  • Own

• I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Believe
  • May
  • Help

• I love hats; I love putting hats on. They are artwork. You can always go out and find a dress to wear for some occasion, but there are not that many occasions you can wear a hat.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Love
  • Dress
  • Hat

• I always try to write the best I can.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Best
  • Try
  • I Can

• Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Country
  • Future
  • Proud

• Now, to find dinosaurs, you hike around in horrible conditions looking for a dinosaur. It sounds really dumb, but that's what it is. It's horrible conditions, because wherever you have nice weather, plants grow, and you don't get any erosion, and you don't see any dinosaurs.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Nice
  • Dumb
  • Grow

• And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Better
  • Pictures
  • Early

• My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Wish
  • Mean
  • Something

• A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.

  

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
  • Enemy

• We used to sleep five to a bed and three of them used to wet the bed. I learnt to swim before I could walk.

  

  Bernard Manning
  • Sleep
  • Walk
  • Swim

• Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff
  • World
  • Real
  • Power

• The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Passion
  • Desires
  • Relations

• Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.

  

  Joseph Crowley
  • Action
  • Behinds
  • Scientist

• Listen to me instead of your financial manager: It’s okay to spend money, to save it, to give it away, to worry over it. It’s just money. Your only enemy in life is time. Do be miser with time: hoard it, treasure it, don’t squander a single minute of it.

  

  Cassandra King
  • Time
  • Treasure
  • Squander

• Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no one has ever tried it on, like the music that no ear has listened to. It is less real, not more real, than the verified article; and to attribute a superior degree of glory to it seems little more than a piece of perverse abstraction-worship.

  

  William James
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Truth

• The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.

  

  Roberto Unger
  • Scientist
  • Treasure
  • Riddles