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philosophical heaven religion
No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'. C. S. Lewis
philosophical dental-work endurance
There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently William Shakespeare
philosophical forever lasts
Only the impossible lasts forever. Djuna Barnes
philosophical ideas welcome
I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome. David Mitchell
philosophical perspective humanity
There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got here. It is an on-going search, often unconscious, for a cosmic perspective for humanity Carl Sagan
philosophical two mind
The greatest sci-fis, in my mind, are two things: They're what-ifs - what if this happened, and you get to see it - but they're also these philosophical cautionary tales. They deal with the underlying themes beneath the what-if. Bryce Dallas Howard
philosophical heart past
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach! Charles Dickens
philosophical heart men
I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. But I know what I have seen, and what I have looked in the face in this world here, where I find myself. And I tell you this, my friend, that there are people (men and women both, unfortunately) who have no good in them-none. That there are people whom it is necessary to detest without compromise. That there are people who must be dealt with as enemies of the human race. That there are people who have no human heart, and who must be crushed like savage beasts and cleared out of the way.
philosophical imagination secret
Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies. Charles Baudelaire
objectivity literature littles
We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective. Dave Barry
objectivity jam traffic
We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought. Chogyam Trungpa
objectivity literature moral
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
objectivity maintenance attention
Darwin paid particular attention to disconfirming evidence. Objectivity maintenance routines are totally required in life if you're going to be a great thinker. Charlie Munger
objectivity focus insightful
Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.
objectivity chess firsts
Chess first of all teaches you to be objective. Alexander Alekhine
objectivity tests failing
Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny - and also in a willingness to revise or abandon your theories when the tests fail (as they usually do). Stephen Jay Gould
objectivity law history
The case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not exist. Isaiah Berlin
objectivity ornaments saws
We hew and saw and plane facts to make them dovetail with our prejudices, so that they become mere ornaments with which to parade our objectivity. Paul Eldridge
data democratic group lay people priesthood public science scientists small society views work
It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
data expect fed feed hands home sales
The pending home sales data feed right into the hands of those who expect the Fed to end its interest-rate hikes.
data ideas waiting
[N]o scientist likes to be criticized. ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a really good idea. I'm very fond of it. It's done you no harm. Please don't attack it." That's not the way it goes. The hard but just rule is that if the ideas don't work, you must throw them away. Don't waste any neurons on what doesn't work. Devote those neurons to new ideas that better explain the data. Valid criticism is doing you a favor.
data easy insufficient
With insufficient data it is easy to go wrong.
data body celestial-bodies
Perhaps... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the outcome of any chemical combination, in the same way, so to speak, as he calculates the motions of celestial bodies. Antoine Lavoisier
data heavy holding people week
We've got some pretty heavy data this week and I know people are holding off a little bit.
data discussing engineers hard night options ourselves perform
We've made it hard for ourselves because we didn't perform as well as we should have. Our engineers are digesting data now and will be discussing options well into the night I would think.
data event recorder
We have to look at the event data recorder in more detail. Mark Rosenker
data exception released surprised today
With the exception of the backward-looking Q4 GDP report, the data released today surprised to the downside. David Rosenberg