Compulsory Quote by Murray Gell-Mann Download Open image “Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.” — Murray Gell-Mann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Compulsory Forbidden
Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital. — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results. — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Superstitions typically involve seeing order where in fact there is none, and denial amounts to rejecting evidence of regularities, sometimes even ones that are… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
I thought of killing myself but soon decided that I could always try MIT and then kill myself later if it was that bad… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with the behavior of some heavy,… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm. — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
If I have seen further than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarfs. — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
I never did drama at school. I did it for one term, when it was compulsory, and I hated it. Tennis was the main… — Luke Mitchell Copy Share Image
East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16,… — George Shearing Copy Share Image
I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other… — Patricia Hewitt Copy Share Image
Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary… — Chen Shui-bian Copy Share Image
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Citizens ... should be practitioners of civic virtue in their conduct toward government. They should be ever willing to fulfill the duties of citizenship.… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When caring for your neighbor becomes a compulsory obligation imposed by government instead of voluntary, charity turns to confiscation and freedom to achieve to… — Star Parker Copy Share Image
Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image