Alan Chalmersun Quotes
Science progresses by trial and error, by conjectures and refutations. Only the fittest theories survive.
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
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Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
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Luckily I don't have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I'm off tour, so I can dive in and create the shoes that I want for my line. But okay, I did buy a pair of vintage combat boots because they were so beaten up - I had to have them.
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I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
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He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
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Is anything more certain than that in all those vast times and spaces, if I were allowed to search them, I should nowhere find her face, her voice, her touch? She died. She is dead. Is the word so difficult to learn?
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.
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Palabras que me dijeron en otros tiempos, las oigo hoy.
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One could happily make a case that more random civilians, and fewer fucking lawyers, should be on the court. But the only other thing to say about Miers is that she is a fucking lawyer.
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Nobody but an idiot would pretend that they had an error-proof way of choosing the 'best' out of hundreds of perfectly qualified applicants - not for university or for anything.
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The way I see it, any attention I get, for whatever reason, just draws more eyes to the causes that I believe in.
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Facts matter a great deal to me.
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I feel like movies, if there's any kind of budget whatsoever, there's so much sitting, and I really like to work. Otherwise my blood sugar just drops, you know, six hours sitting in a camper.
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No one deserves to live who has not at least one good-man-and-true for a friend.
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For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next - that my suffering was taking place in a grand setting. I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized. And I could accept this. It was all right.
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Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which it has given us, but also in that it guides our spirit.
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Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.
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Science progresses by trial and error, by conjectures and refutations. Only the fittest theories survive.
