“Life is an emergent, rather than an immanent or inherent, property of matter. Although it arises from the material world, it cannot be reduced to it.”
Erwin Schrödinger
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” misattributed to Buddha
(http://fakebuddhaquotes.com/believe-nothing-no-matter-where-you-read-it/)
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
[The] “truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.” Speech in the House of Commons, May 17, 1916 “Royal Assent”. Winston Churchill
“Occasionally he stumbled over the truth but he always picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.” (Winston Churchill)
“With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.” Attributed to von Neumann by Enrico Fermi, as quoted by Freeman Dyson in “A meeting with Enrico Fermi” in Nature 427 (22 January 2004) p. 297
“You wake me up early in the morning to tell me that I’m right? Please wait until I’m wrong.” As quoted by Jacob Bronowski in The Ascent of Man TV series
“I have sometimes wondered whether a brain like von Neumann’s does not indicate a species superior to that of man. ~ Hans Bethe” from here: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann
“If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.”
Anonymous: from https://goo.gl/AJeHMV
“I always advise people never to give advice”
P.G.Wodehouse
“Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount”
Clare Booth Luce
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