“And truthfully, when microbiologists talk amongst ourselves, off the record after a few glasses of wine, the optimists admit their optimism is… — Sean Chercover Copy Share Image
“I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of the conviction that a hypothesis is true… — Peter B. Medawar Copy Share Image
To search means, first, I need Being, Truth; second, I do not know where to find it; and third, an action takes… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
It's a glorious universe the positive thinkers have come up with, a vast, shimmering aurora borealis in which desires mingle freely with… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Wishful thinking did not give Oregonians the bottle bill. Wishful thinking did not give the public access to beaches. Nor can we… — Ted Wheeler Copy Share Image
“It was like a new kind of vision, seeing with eyes as keen as scalpel blades, that cut away desires and emotions… — Marcus Sedgwick Copy Share Image
Even though I was making documentaries, my films had fictional elements to them. I think I like blurring those distinctions because so… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“Dare to dream! If you did not have the capability to make your wildest wishes come true, your mind would not have… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
“Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“To My Children, I'm dedicating my little story to you; doubtless you will be among the very few who will ever read… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Focus on something that has high value to someone else, be really rigorous in making that assessment, because natural human tendency is… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
“Telling a depressed person things like “Pull yourself out of it” is cruel and may reinforce the feelings of worthlessness, guilt, and… — Francis Mark Mondimore Copy Share Image
I feel that we should stop wasting our time trying to please the supernatural and concentrate on improving the welfare of human… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
“Lecter sits in his armchair with a big pad of butcher paper doing calculations. The pages are filled with the symbols both… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
“When our hopes for performance are not completely met, realistic optimism involves accepting what cannot now be changed, rather than condemning or… — Sandra L. Schneider Copy Share Image
“Anyway, I thought, it's wishful thinking, all this talk of ghosts. If the dead wandered among us, their spirits still present on… — Carolyn Parkhurst Copy Share Image
“We all have different skill sets, interests, concentration cycles, and energy levels. The key is to find out how long it really… — Julie Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“Maybe when parents name their children they do it from the perspective of wishful thinking. Like when you go to a restaurant… — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image
“Rhyme is bullshit. Rhyme says that everything works out in the end. All harmony and order. When I see a rhyme in… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“The archduke will see you now,” Bishop Riphaen said to von Pappenheim, interrupting his wishful thinking. “And he is most eager to… — Stephen A. Reger Copy Share Image
“Wishful Thinking You say you are over me, my heart— it skips, it sinks. I see you now with someone new, I… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
And somewhere amidst the bargaining, the tears, the selflessness, the wishful thinking, I found clarity. He wasn't, he couldn't ever love me… — Vivaciousvicky Copy Share Image
Akhlys lunged at Percy, and for a split second he thought: Well, hey, I’m just smoke. She can’t touch me, right? He… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The bubble hasn't popped yet and there's tremendous value in social media. ... But it's wishful thinking to believe that others on… — Peter Fader Copy Share Image
Some people never seem to learn from experience. No matter how often they had seen the lion devour the lamb, they continued… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
“Somebody better be dead or dying." He froze mid-step when he saw her. It might have been wishful thinking but she could've… — Cherrie Lynn Copy Share Image
Religion: A lot of fanciful ideas inspired by wishful thinking. Science: A lot of logical ideas based on the best evidence available.… — David Alan Harvey Copy Share Image
[Freud's] sense of reality is less clouded by wishful thinking than is the case with other people and [he combines] the qualities… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Companies can add value and simultaneously promote themselves if their product or service truly improves the lives of their customers. I mean… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Things are happening out there. Don’t waste your life in wishful thinking. Get out of your cocoon and go make a name… — Ogwo David Emenike Copy Share Image
The investment business has taught me – increasingly as the years have passed – that people, especially investors (and, I believe, Americans),… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL thinking is wishful, reactions of… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity's place in the… — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image
“The afterlife is what you want it to be. Not what you wish it was when you are alive, but what you… — Al K. Line Copy Share Image
“he was not the first general to welcome statistics he wanted to hear—but the numbers emerged from an intricate origami of war… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
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