Paradox Quotes

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The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom… — Edgar Allan Poe
I find it [science] analytical, pretentious and superficial-largely because it does not address itself to dreams, chance, laughter, feelings, or paradox-in other words,-all the things… — Luis Bunuel
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the… — Bertrand Russell
I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and perhaps to liberty… — Abraham Lincoln
The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations, can be phrased… — E. O. Wilson
But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has a rather crude… — Jacob Bronowski
To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life. — Oscar Wilde
One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories. — Philip J. Davis
We are on a journey of becoming that which we already are. That is the impossible paradox of our lives. — Leonard Jacobson
Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as "miracles." But the point of the title lies in the… — Elisha Gray
On foundations we believe in the reality of mathematics, but of course, when philosophers attack us with their paradoxes, we rush to hide behind formalism… — Jean Dieudonne
Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually genuinely desiring peace. War is the outcome, not… — Norman Angell
There is nothing absolute and final. If everything were ironclad, all the rules absolute and everything structured so no paradox or irony existed, you couldn't… — Itzhak Bentov
In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such as for example… — Cyrano de Bergerac
There are lots of cases where we know more about how the world works than we do about how we know how it works. That's… — Jerry Fodor
It is a paradox to say the human body has no 'limit.' There must be a limit to the speed at which men can run.… — Roger Bannister
The challenge of warriorship is to live fully in the world as it is and to find within this world, with all its paradoxes, the… — Chogyam Trungpa
I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility....And the paradox of it all has been that whenever I… — Rick Moody
By a beautiful paradox of Divine love, God makes His Cross the very means of our salvation and our life. We have slain Him; we… — Fulton J. Sheen
Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament....There… — J.R.R. Tolkien

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