William Irwin Thompson Quotes
The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.
William Irwin Thompson
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What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
Barney Frank
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
J. K. Simmons
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
Dan Harmon
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
Fernando Botero
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
Victoria Pratt
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
Damon Lindelof
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To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.
Charles Babbage
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The soft power of science has the potential to reshape global diplomacy.
Ahmed Zewail
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What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest permanent interest, whether it be a copy of verses or a geometrical theorem, is to have done something utterly beyond the powers of the vast majority of men.
G. H. Hardy
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Even abstract shapes must have a likeness
Willem de Kooning
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I keep my stand-up comedy notes in a pile on my desk. I don't organize my act. I keep myself in a state of confusion. It stresses me out, but I prefer creative chaos.
Joy Behar
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The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.
William Irwin Thompson