Bastiaan van Fraassen Quotes

I claim that the success of current scientific theories is no miracle. It is not even surprising to the scientific (Darwinist) mind. For any scientific theory is born into a life of fierce competition, a jungle red in tooth and claw. Only the successful theories survive—the ones which in fact latched onto the actual regularities in nature.

Bastiaan van Fraassen

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• Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.

  

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• The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.

  

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• I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.

  

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• There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

  

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• I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

  

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• Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.

  

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• I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.

  

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• Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

  

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• Anybody you make a movie with when you're 12 and they're 14, you're going to know them your whole life.

  

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• As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.

  

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• For better or for worse, I just have to be on tour for some portion of the year. But it's not easy, you know. It's not easy on the people you love, and I understand when people look at this life and say this isn't sustainable.

  

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• I don't do my own Instagram.

  

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• I was neitherLiving nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence.

  

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• Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.

  

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• In Ted's world, we want the death penalty to be imposed at the scene of the crime.

  

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  Alfred Korzybski

• But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are — all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. — It is a regular thing...

  

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• I work even in the middle of the day, in the full sunshine, and I enjoy it like a cicada.

  

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• Being a woman in a male-dominated industry sort of sucks, but it doesn't suck any more than being a woman in the world. My advice? Be terrifying.

  

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• I claim that the success of current scientific theories is no miracle. It is not even surprising to the scientific (Darwinist) mind. For any scientific theory is born into a life of fierce competition, a jungle red in tooth and claw. Only the successful theories survive—the ones which in fact latched onto the actual regularities in nature.

  

  Bastiaan van Fraassen
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Miracle