“What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discri...” — Jean-Francois Lyotard Quote

“What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.”

“Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.”

“A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.”

“…is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses, limits, confines, goulags, parataxes, non-senses, or paradoxes, and who turns this into the glory of his novelty, into his promise of change?”

“On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.”

“Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as 'the Jesuit Science.”

“Pride of truth is the good it does.”

“Margaret's favorite kind of news story is - would anyone believe this? - the weather. The dull, the prosaic, the default I-have-nothing-else-to-talk-about-so-let's-talk-about-the-weather topic is, to Margaret's mind, a stunning daily phenomenon, overlooked, and taken for granted. Margaret loves it all: hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, lightning storms, and - the ultimate bonanza - an earthquake followed by a tsunami. This may seem sadistic, but even as she mourns any loss of life, she is intrigued by the science of it. Weather is a physical manifestation of the earth's power. Margaret also likes that weather defies prediction. Meteorologists can get close, but there are no guarantees.”

“You know how Einstein got bad grades as a kid? Well, mine are even worse!”

“All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.”