Keith Devlin Quotes
I firmly believe that mathematics does not exist outside of humans. It is something we, as a species, invent.
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Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted.
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I do not believe we can effectively move Australia to a lower emission economy, which is what we need to do if we're going to make a contribution to a global reduction in greenhouse gases, without putting a price on carbon.
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.
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I believe it is impossible to be sure of anything.
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I've been doing this career for a really long time, but there was not a lot of reason, at the time when I wrote 'Fight Song,' to believe that I should keep going.
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I do believe in the separation of church and state. But I don't think separation of church and state means you have to be free from your faith.
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I will continue to believe that Israel's security is paramount.
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I'm a Christian, but I don't believe in religion or anything like that.
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I still believe many poets begin in fear and hope: fear that the poetic past will turn out to be a monologue rather than a conversation. And hope that their voice can be heard as that past turns into a future.
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If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.
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I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
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As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.
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I would like to believe every man is a one-woman man.
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Something I stand for is being brave enough to invest in creative ideas that I firmly believe in and bringing those to life.
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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.
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'I can never bring myself to believe it, John,' said Mary Walker, the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney, of Silverbridge.
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I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.
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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
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I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, 'You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been'. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.
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A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
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Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.
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I firmly believe that mathematics does not exist outside of humans. It is something we, as a species, invent.
