"A god whose creation is so imperfect that……" — Martin Gardner
"A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship."
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28 Quotes by Martin Gardner
Martin Gardner has 28 quotes on this site.
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If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would…
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Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify…
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If present trends continue, our country may soon find itself far behind many other nations in both science and technology…
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Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid…
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All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.
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Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality. That is that entire universe is made of matter,…
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Speaking about symmetry, look out our window, and you may see a cardinal attacking its reflection in the window. The…
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The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what…
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If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is…
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There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and…
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The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to…
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It is part of the pholosophic dullness of our time that there are millions of rational monsters walking about on…
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More Adjusting Quotes
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one of 99 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
— E F Schumacher
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People have sought to adjust the truth to the hour instead of adjusting the hour to the truth, and in…
— Alice Bailey
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Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Instead of adjusting students to docile membership in whatever group they happen to be placed, we should equip them to…
— Joel Henry Hildebrand
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He had handed his daughter to Caroline Gill and that act had led him here, years later, to this girl…
— Kim Edwards
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Success is very largely a matter of adjusting one's self to the ever-varying and changing environments of life, in a…
— Napoleon Hill
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The moment is freedom. — I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to…
— Bruce Lee
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The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come…
— Willie Mays
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Between 1965 (the beginning of LBJ's "Great Society") and 1994, welfare spending has cost the taxpayers $5.4 trillion in constant…
— Rush Limbaugh
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Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with…
— Ilka Chase
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Be outrageous enough to trust God. Don't be adjusting your vision downward. Keep believing for radical things in Christ.
— Brian Houston
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Today the story is no less attitude-adjusting. It is about the defining cultural, social and political issue of our age.…
— Joel Garreau
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