it always sound scarier when a hollerer talk soft.
The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement.
Appealing to his [Einstein's] way of expressing himself in theological terms, I said: If God had wanted to put everything into the universe from the beginning, He would have created a universe without change, without organisms and evolution, and without man and man's experience of change. But he seems to have thought that a live universe with events unexpected even by Himself would be more interesting than a dead one.
There is no history, only histories.
We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
Simple statements are to be prized more highly than less simple ones because they tell us more; because their empirical content is greater; and because they are better testable.
Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.
If you're co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do. . . If you don't do your chores, the company won't succeed. . . No task is too menial.
What I saw day-to-day is like people who are actually asking for freedom, calling for freedom - protesting, singing, chanting, calling for the removal of the regime - plain and simple. And of course there were clashes there because people, they tried to remove those protesters from Tahrir. And I was, like, doing my job as a doctor treating them.
The commercial paper market, when that dries up, you know, that's just like sucking the blood out of the economic body of the United States.
I have not the smarts or patience for political office.