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It is going to be necessary that everything that happens in a finite volume of space and time would have to be analyzable with a… — Richard P. Feynman
No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis or by a suitable reinterpretation… — Imre Lakatos
Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them… — James M. Barrie
I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it), rather than in… — Amartya Sen
Perhaps we see equations as simple because they are easily expressed in terms of mathematical notation already invented at an earlier stage of development of… — Murray Gell-Mann
PoincarÃ© was a vigorous opponent of the theory that all mathematics can be rewritten in terms of the most elementary notions of classical logic; something… — Eric Temple Bell
I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the… — Abraham Lincoln
This is what meditation means: how to be not identified with the mind - how to create a space between yourself and your own mind.… — Rajneesh
Psychical confidence is the external expression of our internal state of confidence. In simpler terms, it is how confidence looks and sounds. — Sean Stephenson
Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence. — Sun Tzu
When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough]… — Chogyam Trungpa
In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man. — Bill Gates
When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through access to an… — Pierre Omidyar
There are no idealists in the plant world and no compassion. The rose and the morning glory know no mercy. Bindweed, the morning glory, will… — Hal Borland
It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about… — Ralph Lauren
McLeod's Daughters' was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-time role. That was great because I learned a lot, in… — Dustin Clare
There is no difference in the realization of the Truth either by a Muslim, Hindu, Zoroastrian, or a Christian. The difference is only in words… — Meher Baba
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
Set aside the many competing explanations of the Big Bang; something made an entire cosmos out of nothing. It is this realization-that something transcendent started… — Gregg Easterbrook
Ordinarily, even when people become religious, they go on thinking in terms of having - possessing heaven or possessing the pleasures of heaven - but… — Rajneesh

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