"Science is about exploring the unknown and cannot……" — Virginia Postrel

Science is about exploring the unknown and cannot offer guarantees. - Virginia Postrel

"Science is about exploring the unknown and cannot offer guarantees."

— Virginia Postrel

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80 Quotes by Virginia Postrel

Virginia Postrel has 80 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.
Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a…
Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs…
The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating…
Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.
European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities…
At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things…
Dialysis does not make patients well. It simply postpones their deaths.
Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is…
The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future…
We know we need bosses and deadlines to help us get work done. But sometimes we can also use an…
As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Since people usually have…

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More Cannot Offer Quotes

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Walking also enables us to watch a hole unfold in front of us. To walk a course is analogous to… — Lorne Rubenstein
Modern capitalism, organising the reduction of all social life to a spectacle, cannot offer any spectacle other than that of… — Unknown Author
Because there is no nation so powerful it cannot be wounded, nor a people so small they cannot offer mighty… — Carmen Agra Deedy
In the spiritual life the easiest way to conquer ego is to offer gratitude to God for five minutes daily.… — Sri Chinmoy
I am and have always been a strong proponent of public education. But by the virtue of its very nature… — Mark Foley
Children, we are told to make an offering at the temple or at the feet of the guru, not because… — Mata Amritanandamayi
This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or lesser degrees,… — Bell Hooks
They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they… — Miroslav Vitous
No, Frodo. You cannot offer me this ring! — Gandalf

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