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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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
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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
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And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.
Galen Rowell
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My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.
Oscar Wilde
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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
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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
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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
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One of the most horrible, yet most important, discoveries of our age has been that, if you really wish to destroy a person and turn him into an automaton, the surest method is not physical torture, in the strict sense, but simply to keep him awake, i.e., in an existential relation to life without intermission.
W. H. Auden
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while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves.
Paul Davies
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There's a bait and switch going on here because the critics want the textbooks to question whether evolution occurred. And of course they don't because scientists don't question whether evolution occurred.
Eugenie Scott
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The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.
Roberto Unger
