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Niels_Bohr
Physics and Human Experience
“Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something given a priori, but rather as the development of methods for ordering and surveying human experience.”
- Source: Niels Bohr, in the book ‘Essays 1958–1962 on Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge’, published by Interscience in 1963. Page 10.
Edsger_Wybe_Dijkstra
Black Box Correctness
“A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box.”
- Source: Dijkstra (1970) "Notes On Structured Programming" (EWD249), Section 3 ("On The Reliability of Mechanisms"), p. 5. Retrieved from http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd02xx/EWD249.PDF
- Keywords: Correctness_quotes Demonstration_quotes Impossibility_quotes Mechanism_quotes Black_Bok_quotes Hope_quotes Convincing_quotes Regard_quotes
Lines of Code
“My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as 'lines produced' but as 'lines spent': the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger.”
- Source: Dijkstra (1988) On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (EWD1036). Retrieved 2022 from http://www.cs.utexas.edu
/users /EWD /transcriptions /EWD10xx /EWD1036.html
Henry_Ford
Human Humanity
“It is a shock when the mind awakens to the fact that not all of humanity is human – that whole groups of people do not regard others with humane feelings.”
- 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 XVIII.
- Keywords: Shock_quotes Mind_quotes Awake_quotes Fact_quotes Humanity_quotes People_quotes Regard_quotes Empathy_quotes Feel_quotes Humane_quotes
Eugene_Grace
Initiative
“The man who has in him the stuff of which success is made is never afraid to accept responsibilities; then, when he gets responsibility, he doesn't regard it lightly; nor does he ever seek to shirk the consequences or attempt to blame anyone else when anything goes wrong. My chief difficulty in building up our huge organization is to find men able and willing to take and discharge responsibilities. So many men can only go to the point of doing routine duties; when given tasks requiring initiative and readiness to shoulder responsibility, they continually run to the boss to get instructions. I am constantly on the lookout for fellows who are not afraid to use their own judgment, and, although they may make quite a few mistakes, yet they at least show executive potentialities... Of course there must be more than willingness to accept responsibility and to exercise initiative; willingness must be accompanied by ability, knowledge, and the judgment which can come only from having thoroughly mastered one's business.”
- Source: Eugene Grace quotes in the article written by B. C. Forbes entitled 'Gene Grace - Whose Story Reads Like a Fairy Tale', published in 'The American Magazine', 1920, volume 90, Page 84. Online at https://www.google.com/books/edition/American_Magazine/qrM7AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 accessed 2021-02-09.
- Keywords: Man_quotes Stuff_quotes Success_quotes Fear_quotes Responsibility_quotes Regard_quotes Seek_quotes Consequence_quotes Attempt_quotes Blame_quotes Wrong_quotes Difficulty_quotes Build_quotes Organization_quotes Find_quotes Ability_quotes Willing_quotes Routine_quotes Duty_quotes Task_quotes Initiative_quotes Continuous_quotes Run_quotes Boss_quotes Instruction_quotes Lookout_quotes Judgment_quotes Knowledge_quotes Master_quotes Business_quotes Mistake_quotes Executive_quotes Potential_quotes Shirk_quotes
Isaac_Newton
Analysis
“As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition. This Analysis consists in making Experiments and Observations, and in drawing general Conclusions from them by Induction, and admitting of no Objections against the Conclusions, but such as are taken from Experiments, or other certain Truths. For Hypotheses are not to be regarded in experimental Philosophy.”
- Source: Sir Isaac Newton, From Opticks, (1704, 2nd ed. 1718), Book 3, Query 31, 380.
- Keywords: Mathematics_quotes Nature_quotes Philosophy_quotes Investigation_quotes Difficulty_quotes Methodology_quotes Analysis_quotes Precede_quotes Composition_quotes Experiment_quotes Observation_quotes Conclusion_quotes Induction_quotes Objection_quotes Truth_quotes Hypothesis_quotes Regard_quotes
David_E_Nye
History Not Rhetorical
“Yet it does not follow that historical arguments should be regarded as rhetorical exercises. To say that the past is not perfectly knowable does not make it infinitely malleable.”
- Source: A book. Written by David E. Nye. Entitled 'Narratives and Spaces'. Published in 1997 by Univerity of Exeter Press, Exeter, UK. Hardback ISBN 0-85989-555-6. Paperback ISBN 0-85989-556-4. Introduction, page 7.
- Keywords: History_quotes Argument_quotes Regard_quotes Exercise_quotes Past_quotes Perfect_quotes Knowledge_quotes Infinite_quotes Malleable_quotes
Baruch_Spinoza
Good and Evil
“Experience day by day protested and showed by infinite examples, that good and evil fortunes fall to the lot of pious and impious alike; still they would not abandon their inveterate prejudice, for it was more easy for them to class such contradictions among other unknown things of whose use they were ignorant, and thus to retain their actual and innate condition of ignorance, than to destroy the whole fabric of their reasoning and start afresh. They therefore laid down as an axiom, that God's judgments far transcend human understanding. Such a doctrine might well have sufficed to conceal the truth from the human race for all eternity, if mathematics had not furnished another standard of verity in considering solely the essence and properties of figures without regard to their final causes.”
- Source: A book. Entitled Ethics. Also entitled Ethica. Written by Baruch Spinoza. Originally published 1677. Translated from Latin by R. H. M. Elwes. Part I, Appendix.
- Keywords: Ethics_quotes Deity_quotes Religion_quotes Prejudice_quotes Ignorance_quotes Reason_quotes Epistemology_quotes Mathematics_quotes Justice_quotes Causality_quotes Experience_quotes Day_quotes Protest_quotes Show_quotes Infinite_quotes Good_quotes Evil_quotes Fortune_quotes Fall_quotes Lot_quotes Pious_quotes Impious_quotes Abandon_quotes Inveterate_quotes Easy_quotes Contradiction_quotes Unknown_quotes Retain_quotes Actual_quotes Innate_quotes Condition_quotes Destroy_quotes Fabric_quotes Start_quotes Afresh_quotes Laid_quotes Axiom_quotes God_quotes Judgment_quotes Transcend_quotes Human_quotes Understand_quotes Doctrine_quotes Suffice_quotes Conceal_quotes Truth_quotes Race_quotes Eternity_quotes Furnish_quotes Standard_quotes Verity_quotes Consider_quotes Essence_quotes Property_quotes Figure_quotes Regard_quotes Final_quotes
Mind Pleasure
“When the mind regards itself and its own power of activity, it feels pleasure: and that pleasure is greater in proportion to the distinctness wherewith it conceives itself and its own power of activity.”
- Source: A book. Entitled Ethics. Written by Baruch Spinoza. Originally published 1677. Online at https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ethics_(Spinoza). Translated from Latin by R. H. M. Elwes. Part III, Prop. LIII.
- Keywords: Mind_quotes Pleasure_quotes Power_quotes Activity_quotes Regard_quotes Proportion_quotes Distinct_quotes Conceive_quotes
How Much Money
“they who know the true use of money, and who fix the measure of wealth solely with regard to their actual needs, live content with little.”
- Source: A book. Entitled Ethics. Written by Baruch Spinoza. Originally published 1677. Online at https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ethics_(Spinoza). Translated from Latin by R. H. M. Elwes. Part IV, Prop. XXIX.
- Keywords: Money_quotes Truth_quotes Measurement_quotes Wealth_quotes Need_quotes Contentment_quotes Fix_quotes Regard_quotes Actual_quotes Live_quotes Little_quotes
Alan_Turing
Digital Computer
“A digital computer can usually be regarded as consisting of three parts: One, store. Two, executive unit. Three, control.”
- Source: From the paper entitled “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” by Alan Turing. Published in 1936 in “Mind”, volume 49, number 236.
- Keywords: Digital_quotes Computer_quotes Regard_quotes Consist_quotes Part_quotes Store_quotes Executive_quotes Unit_quotes Control_quotes
Alfred_Wegener
Continental Drift
“The first concept of continental drift first came to me as far back as 1910, when considering the map of the world, under the direct impression produced by the congruence of the coast lines on either side of the Atlantic. At first I did not pay attention to the ideas because I regarded it as improbable. In the fall of 1911, I came quite accidentally upon a synoptic report in which I learned for the first time of palaeontological evidence for a former land bridge between Brazil and Africa. As a result I undertook a cursory examination of relevant research in the fields of geology and palaeontology, and this provided immediately such weighty corroboration that a conviction of the fundamental soundness of the idea took root in my mind.”
- Source: Alfred L. Wegener, In The Origins of Continents and Oceans (4th ed. 1929), trans. John Biram (1966), 1.
- Keywords: Conception_quotes Continental_quotes Drift_quotes Map_quotes World_quotes Impress_quotes Produce_quotes Congruity_quotes Coast_quotes Line_quotes Side_quotes Atlantic_quotes Attention_quotes Idea_quotes Regard_quotes Improbable_quotes Fall_quotes Accident_quotes Synoptic_quotes Report_quotes Learning_quotes First_quotes Palaeontology_quotes Evidence_quotes Former_quotes Land_quotes Bridge_quotes Brazil_quotes Africa_quotes Result_quotes Examination_quotes Relevance_quotes Research_quotes Field_quotes Geology_quotes Provide_quotes Immediate_quotes Weight_quotes Corroborate_quotes Conviction_quotes Fundamental_quotes Sound_quotes Root_quotes Mind_quotes
