- Nov 07, 2020
May Quotes
Words shaped by possibility and doubt.
These may quotes range from an honest admission of lingering insecurity carried from childhood, to a scientific point about how measurement affects what can be known about the past. Another notes that even the clearest concept only applies within limits. Related reflections continue in our April quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Interest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capital, however capital may be defined, would practically cease to exist as an income producing fund, for the simple reason that if money, wherewith to buy capital, could be obtained for one-half of one per cent, capital itself could command no higher price.
- Dispense
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
The movement of the emitters of the spectral lines may be deduced on the basis of the Doppler principle.
- Evaluate
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the experimental physicist has already done a great deal of work in this field, nevertheless the theoretical physicist has still hardly begun to evaluate the experimental material which may lead him to conclusions about the structure of the atom.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
- Improvement
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.
- Nov 07, 2020
Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
We see evidence that lakes and forests and wetlands can have different equilibria - so you have a savanna system that may be stable and thriving, but it can also tip over and become an arid steppe if pushed too far by warming, land degradation, and biodiversity loss.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020