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Claude_Bernard

Doubt and Scepticism

“One must doubt, but by no means be sceptical. A sceptic, indeed, who believes nothing, no longer has a foundation on which to establish his criterion.”
  • Source: From the book "An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine" written by Claude Bernard published in French in 1865 as "Introduction à l'étude de la médecine expérimentale". Translated to English by Henry Copley Greene in 1927 and republished by Henry Shuman, Inc. in 1949. Chapter II, page 52. Available online at https://archive.org/details/b21270557 retrieved 2024.
Keywords: Doubt_quotes Sceptic_quotes Skeptic_quotes Be_quotes Belief_quotes Nothing_quotes Foundation_quotes Establish_quotes Criterion_quotes

Bible_Verses

Tower Of Babel (Genesis 11:4-6)

(4) “And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”
(5) “And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.”
(6) “And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.”
Keywords: Lord_quotes Build_quotes City_quotes Tower_quotes Top_quotes Reach_quotes Heaven_quotes Make_quotes Name_quotes Pride_quotes Hubris_quotes Scatter_quotes Face_quotes Whole_quotes Earth_quotes Children_quotes Men_quotes People_quotes One_quotes Unity_quotes Cooperation_quotes Language_quotes Do_quotes Nothing_quotes Restraint_quotes Imagination_quotes Babel_quotes

Arthur_Bloch

Murphy's Law Corollary 1

“Nothing is as easy as it looks.”
  • Source: Attributed to Edward A Murphy, reported in the book “Murphy's Law and Other Reasons Why Things Go Wrong” written by Arthur Bloch, first edition published in 1977 by Price/Stern/Sloan, Los Angeles, California. ISBN-10: 0843104287. ISBN-13: 978-0843104288. Chapter Murphology, page 11.
Keywords: Nothing_quotes Easy_quotes Look_quotes Law_quotes Murphy(topic)_quotes

Winston_Churchill

Never Give In

“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty — never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
  • Source: Winston Churchill in a speech delivered 1941-10-29 at Harrow School, his old alma mater in London.
Keywords: Never_quotes Give_quotes In_quotes Nothing_quotes Great_quotes Small_quotes Large_quotes Petty_quotes Except_quotes Conviction_quotes Honour_quotes Good_quotes Sense_quotes Yield_quotes Force_quotes Apparent_quotes Overwhelm_quotes Might_quotes Enemy_quotes

Arthur_Conan_Doyle

Deceptive Obvious Fact

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
Keywords: Nothing_quotes Deceptive_quotes Obvious_quotes Fact_quotes

Henry_Ford

Wages

“There is nothing to running a business by custom – to saying: 'I pay the going rate of wages.' The same man would not so easily say: 'I have nothing better or cheaper to sell than any one has.' No manufacturer in his right mind would contend that buying only the cheapest materials is the way to make certain of manufacturing the best article. Then why do we hear so much talk about the 'liquidation of labour' and the benefits that will flow to the country from cutting wages – which means only the cutting of buying power and the curtailing of the home market? What good is industry if it be so unskillfully managed as not to return a living to everyone concerned? No question is more important than that of wages – most of the people of the country live on wages. The scale of their living – the rate of their wages – determines the prosperity of the country.”
  • Source: Henry Ford. A book. Entitled My Life and Work. Written by Henry Ford in collaboration with Samuel Crowther. Published 1922, Garden City, NY: Doubleday. Chapter VIII.
Keywords: Business_quotes Pay_quotes Rate_quotes Wage_quotes Manufacture_quotes Sell_quotes Mind_quotes Buy_quotes Cheap_quotes Material_quotes Liquidation_quotes Labor_quotes Benefit_quotes Cut_quotes Power_quotes Market_quotes Industry_quotes People_quotes Prosperity_quotes Country_quotes Inequality_quotes Nothing_quotes Run_quotes Custom_quotes Say_quotes Man_quotes Easy_quotes Better_quotes Contend_quotes Best_quotes Article_quotes Hear_quotes Talk_quotes Curtail_quotes Home_quotes Management_quotes Living_quotes Question_quotes Important_quotes Scale_quotes Determine_quotes

Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe

Great Truth

“Nothing is great but truth, and the smallest truth is great... Even a harmful truth is useful, for it can be harmful only for the moment and will lead to other truths, which must always become useful, very much so. Conversely, even a useful error is harmful, for it can be useful only for the moment, enticing us into other errors, which become more and more harmful.”
  • Source: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in a letter to Charlotte von Stein in 1787. Reprinted in in “Goethe’s World View: Presented in His Reflections and Maxims” published 1963. Edited by Frederick Ungar, Translated by Heinz Norden, pp. 72-73, Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, New York.
Keywords: Nothing_quotes Great_quotes Truth_quotes Small_quotes Harm_quotes Useful_quotes Moment_quotes Lead_quotes Error_quotes Entice_quotes

Andrew_Hui

Aphorism Genre

“The shortest of genres — the aphorism... A basic unit of intelligible thought, this microform has persisted across world cultures and histories, from Confucius to Twitter... Opposed to the babble of the foolish, the redundancy of bureaucrats, the silence of mystics, in the aphorism nothing is superfluous, every word bears weight.”
  • Source: From the book “A Theory of the Aphorism from Confucius to Twitter” by Andrew Hui. Published in 2019 by Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691188959. Introduction, page 1.
Keywords: Short_quotes Genre_quotes Aphorism_quotes Basic_quotes Unit_quotes Intelligible_quotes Thought_quotes Microform_quotes Persist_quotes Across_quotes Culture_quotes History_quotes Confucius(topic)_quotes Twitter_quotes Oppose_quotes Babble_quotes Foolish_quotes Redundant_quotes Bureaucrat_quotes Silence_quotes Mystic_quotes Nothing_quotes Superfluous_quotes Word_quotes Bear_quotes Weight_quotes

Carl_Jung

Speak

“To no longer be a Christian is easy. But what next? For more is yet to come. Everything is waiting for you. And you? You remain silent and have nothing to say. But you should speak. Why have you received the revelation? You should not hide it.”
  • Notes: A conversation Jung had with himself between his 'I' and his 'soul'.
  • Source: Written by Carl Jung in his 'Black Books' between 1913 and 1931, volume 7, page 92c. Facsimile edition published as 'The Black Books of C. G. Jung', edited by Sonu Shamdasani, translated by Martin Liebscher, John Peck and Sonu Shamdasani, published by W. W. Norton in 2020, ISBN 978-039308864-9. Reprinted in the book 'The Red Book: Liber Novus: A Reader's Edition', published 2009 by W. W. Norton, ISBN: 978-039308908-0. Edited by Sonu Shamdasani, translated by Mark Kybruz, John Peck, and Sonu Shamdasani. Introduction, page 61.
Keywords: Christianity_quotes Easy_quotes Next_quotes More_quotes Wait_quotes Silent_quotes Nothing_quotes Say_quotes Speak_quotes Receive_quotes Revelation_quotes Hide_quotes

Kris_Kristofferson

Freedom

“Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose.”
Keywords: Freedom_quotes Word_quotes Nothing_quotes Left_quotes Lose_quotes Joplin(topic)_quotes

Pearl_and_Mackenzie

Strong AI

“The successes of deep learning have been truly remarkable... Nevertheless, deep learning has succeeded primarily by showing that certain questions or tasks we thought were difficult are in fact not. It has not addressed the truly difficult questions that continue to prevent us from achieving humanlike AI. As a result the public believes that ‘strong AI,’ machines that think like humans, is just around the corner or maybe even here already. In reality, nothing could be farther from the truth.”
  • Source: Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie in “The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect”. Published by Basic Books of New York, NY in 2018. Chapter 1, page 30. ISBN 978-0465097616 (ebook).
Keywords: Success_quotes Deep_quotes Learning_quotes Remarkable_quotes Primary_quotes Show_quotes Question_quotes Certain_quotes Task_quotes Thought_quotes Difficult_quotes Fact_quotes Address_quotes Prevent_quotes Achieve_quotes Humanlike_quotes AI_quotes Artificial_quotes Intelligence_quotes Result_quotes Public_quotes Believe_quotes Strong_quotes Machine_quotes Think_quotes Human_quotes Around_quotes Corner_quotes Here_quotes Already_quotes Reality_quotes Nothing_quotes Farther_quotes Truth_quotes

Steven_Pinker

Mind and Soul

“The traditional explanation of intelligence is that human flesh is suffused with a non-material entity, the soul, usually envisioned as some kind of ghost or spirit. But the theory faces an insurmountable problem: How does the spook interact with solid matter? How does an ethereal nothing respond to flashes, pokes, and beeps and get arms and legs to move? Another problem is the overwhelming evidence that the mind is the activity of the brain.”
  • Source: Steven Pinker (1997). How the Mind Works. New York, NY: W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-06973-0; eISBN 978-0-393-06973-0. Chapter 2 The search for Intelligent Life in the Universe.
Keywords: Tradition_quotes Explanation_quotes Intelligence_quotes Human_quotes Flesh_quotes Suffuse_quotes Non-Material_quotes Material_quotes Entity_quotes Envision_quotes Kind_quotes Ghost_quotes Spirit_quotes Theory_quotes Insurmountable_quotes Problem_quotes Spook_quotes Interaction_quotes Solid_quotes Matter_quotes Ethereal_quotes Nothing_quotes Respond_quotes Flash_quotes Poke_quotes Beep_quotes Arm_quotes Leg_quotes Movement_quotes Overwhelm_quotes Evidence_quotes Mind_quotes Activity_quotes Brain_quotes Soul_quotes

Franklin_D_Roosevelt

Fear Itself

“Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror, which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”

  • Source: Spoken by Franklin D. Roosevelt the 1933 U.S. presidential inaugural address, 1933-03-04.
Keywords: Fear_quotes Courage_quotes Nameless_quotes Unreasoning_quotes Unjustified_quotes Terror_quotes Paralyze_quotes Effort_quotes Convert_quotes Retreat_quotes Advance_quotes Firm_quotes Belief_quotes

Erwin_Schrödinger

Objective Nature

“While the direct sensual perception of the phenomenon tells us nothing as to its objective physical nature (or what we usually call so) and has to be discarded from the outset as a source of information, yet the theoretical picture we obtain eventually rests entirely on a complicated array of various informations, all obtained by direct sensual perception. It resides upon them, it is pieced together from them, yet it cannot really be said to contain them. In using the picture we usually forget about them, except in the quite general way that we know our idea of a light-wave is not a haphazard invention of a crank but is based on experiment.”
  • Source: Erwin Schrödinger in the book “Mind and Matter”, chapter 6. Contained within the anthology “What is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches”. Published in 1992 and reprinted in 2013 by Cambridge University Press, New York, NY. ISBN: 9781107604667. Online at <http://strangebeautiful.com/other-texts/schrodinger-what-is-life-mind-matter-auto-sketches.pdf> retrieved 2024. Note: “Mind and Matter” originally published separately in 1944.
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Michael_Alan_Singer

Mind Voice

“There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind – you are the one who hears it.”
  • Source: From the book “The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself”, by Michael Alan Singer, published 2007 by New Harbinger Publications. ISBN 978-1572245372. Chapter 1.
Keywords: Nothing_quotes Important_quotes True_quotes Grow_quotes Realize_quotes Voice_quotes Mind_quotes Hear_quotes Observer_quotes

Albert_Szent-Györgyi

Greatest Mistake

“There is but one safe way to avoid mistakes: to do nothing or, at least, to avoid doing something new. This, however, in itself, may be the greatest mistake of all.”
Keywords: Safe_quotes Way_quotes Avoidance_quotes Mistake_quotes New_quotes Do_quotes Nothing_quotes

Alfred_Tennyson

All Is Made

“For nothing is, but all is made
 But if I dream that all these are,
 They are to me for that I dream;
 For all things are as they seem to all,
 And all things flow like a stream.”
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Shannon_Vallor

AI Creative Expression

“The heart of creative work is not creation, but expression... A generative AI model has nothing it needs to say.”
  • Source: From the book “The AI Mirror” by Shannon Vallor. Published 2024 by Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0197759066. Chapter 5, page 141.
Keywords: AI_quotes Artificial_quotes Intelligence_quotes Longtermism_quotes Heart_quotes Creative_quotes Work_quotes Creation_quotes Expression_quotes Generative_quotes Model_quotes Nothing_quotes Need_quotes Say_quotes

Edward_Yourdon

Better Programming Languages

“Better coding techniques may do nothing more than help you arrive at a disaster sooner than before. Better programming languages, used without anything else, may be just what your programmers need to develop a brilliant solution to the wrong problem.”
  • Source: Edward Yourdon in the book “Decline and Fall of the American Programmer”. Published in 1992 by Prentice Hall. ISBN: 0-13-203670-3. Chapter 2, section 2.1, page 27.
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