Conventional Quote by Steve Albini Download Open image “Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment” — Steve Albini ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conventional Conventional wisdom Doubt Experiments Reason Verify Wisdom
I don't believe any experiment until it is confirmed by theory. I find this is a witty inversion of "conventional" wisdom. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
I love this crazy scientific method called asking. It helps me to justify my assumptions. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Do not put forward anything that you cannot prove by experimentation. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible. — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
A scientist is never certain. ... We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
When people are absurdly tall, they command everyone's attention when they walk into a room. Nobody's ever dismissive of somebody for being too tall. — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
Clip your year-end column and put it away for 10 years. See if you don’t feel like an idiot when you reread it. — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
I'm only interested in working on records that legitimately reflect the band's own perception of their music and existence. If you commit yourselves to… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
You see something happen to a population whereby everyone adopts something that's just preposterous in a way that makes it normal instantly. If any… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
Suicide was such a formative band for me, so influential in the development of my taste. They're one of those bands that operated in… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
I feel like bands should be growing, living, functioning entities and to crystallize a band into a single album, and for that to be… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
When I'm in a restaurant, I don't eat red meat. It doesn't taste like anything. But if a friend of mine is grilling stuff… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
Cooking is about presenting flavors and other aspects of food in a way that makes best use of them and makes an engaging, satisfying… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
I'm not a particularly good cook. Part of it is that it is the kind of cooking anybody could do if they bothered. It's… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
Whether you are buying a car or casting a ballot, choosing a job or planning a family, follow your moral compass. Don't let others… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look… — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
Contrarian thinking at its best simply asks, Is this really true? It speaks up when the politically correct answer or the conventional wisdom doesn't… — Larry Osborne Copy Share Image
Because investors are not usually penalized for adhering to conventional practices, doing so is the less professionally risky strategy, even though it virtually guarantees… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
My father was in real estate, banking, and land management. As family life, it was very conventional, happy, and comfortable. We weren't wealthy, but… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to… — John Avlon Copy Share Image
Some days, I think maybe we should try and be a little more conventional, but every time I try, I fail, so I'm learning… — Seinabo Sey Copy Share Image
The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic — Scott Belsky Copy Share Image
Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Currency speculation-over a trillion dollars a day-is a tax-free activity. The notion of a tax on "day trades" or other speculative swaps was revived… — Eric Kierans Copy Share Image
