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
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
And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.
Galen Rowell
Some people eat the tuna, some people roll it up into a ball. Also, the sort of disgusting texture and smell, I think, adds something to the experience.
Alex Timbers
My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.
Oscar Wilde
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
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
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
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
An uncritical scientist is a contradiction in terms: if you meet one, chances are that you have encountered a charlatan. By contrast, a critical clinician is a true rarity, in my experience. If you meet one, chances are that you have found a good and responsible doctor.
Edzard Ernst
All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.
Vita Sackville-West
There is a glorious candor in an honest quart of wine,
A certain inspitation which I cannot well define.
Eugene Field