Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.”
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.”
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“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.”
“There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.”
“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
“That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for the crime of sassing one of his priests. Don't ask me about the Front Office's policies; I just work here.”
“Both for practical reasons and for mathematically verifiable moral reasons, authority and responsibility must be equal - else a balancing takes place as surely as current flows between points of unequal potential. To permit irresponsible authority is to sow disaster; to hold a man responsible for anything he does not control is to behave with blind idiocy. The unlimited democracies were unstable because their citizens were not responsible for the fashion in which they exerted their sovereign authority... other than through the tragic logic of history... No attempt was made to determine whether a voter was socially responsible to the extent of his literally unlimited authority. If he voted the impossible, the disastrous possible happened instead - and responsibility was then forced on him willy-nilly and destroyed both him and his foundationless temple.”
“學生在做科學實驗時,也經常發生這種情況。通常學生都知道實驗會出現怎樣的結果,所以他們會動一些手腳,努力讓結果更漂亮。在讀取計量器的刻度時,會將數值讀得高一點,或是低一點,當得出接近理想的結果時,就會感到滿足,完全沒有發現自己犯了根本性的錯誤。在判斷實驗是否正確時,最好事先不知道會得出怎樣的結果,同樣地,我認為不告訴你們那片拼圖是誰會比較好,這就是我剛才說的,希望答案具有客觀性。”
“Dermatology ... this young daughter of medicine ...”
“The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.”
“You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.”
“A recent survey of 2,000 male graduates of Harvard Business School”
“Although the theory of relativity makes the greatest of demands on the ability for abstract thought, still it fulfills the traditional requirements of science insofar as it permits a division of the world into subject and object (observer and observed) and, hence, a clear formulation of the law of causality.”