The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance
The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and. . . there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover.
We are not sufficiently astonished by the fact that any science may be possible.
Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth. . . They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.
In space-time everything which for each of us constitutes the past, the present and the future is given en bloc. . . Each observer, as his time passes, discovers, so to speak, new slices of space-time which appear to him as successive aspects of the material world, though in reality the ensemble of events constituting space-time exist prior to his knowledge of them.
It seems a little paradoxical to construct a configuration space with the coordinates of points which do not exist.
The history of science shows that the progress of science has constantly been hampered by the tyrannical influence of certain conceptions that finally came to be considered as dogma. For this reason, it is proper to submit periodically to a very searching examination, principles that we have come to assume without any more discussion.
On the aesthetic level, decolonized music presents itself as a direct antagonist to the traditional values promoted by the culture industry.
You probably became a musicians because you're into it so stay that way. Don't believe that someone else has the golden ticket for you because they don't.
Few men in their 70s looked as good as my father did. What was his secret? Genes, maybe, since he didn't exercise or diet, and he kept a candy drawer, drank a pot of black coffee every day, and read in the middle of the night. Still, he took such joy in being a dad - and in life in general - and his happiness showed.
Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want.