Category: quotes

People have amazing facilities for sensing something without knowing where it comes from (intuition); for sensing that some phenomenon or situation or object is like…

One of the most useful things a person can know about himself is where he or she begins and where other people end. If you…

In 1950, Norman Mailer commented as follows in a letter to William Styron: ?I didn?t write [The] Naked [and the Dead] because I wanted to…

Some excerpts from the review that resonate with me: Michalski follows Heidegger in holding that concepts, which we ordinarily employ to make sense of our…

  The important thing to bear in mind is that the failure to evaluate the machine and to integrate it in society as a whole…

Experiences on controversies such as these brings out the impossibility of learning anything from facts till they are examined and interpreted by reason; and teaches…

Data alone doesn’t have a voice. There is no substitute for theorizing and modeling. From a letter by Steven Weinberg in the NYR of Books…

    We at the height are ready to decline.     There is a tide in the affairs of men     Which, taken at the flood,…

On the matter of wanting, a lot of us go around dazed and confused. We don?t really know what we?d like?there?s so much available in…

I once read this in the Economist, in the year 2000, I believe, but cannot find the reference. Sir- Your article on irony (A quiet…