Form Quotes - Page 65

Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom; therefore, when we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained a something that will stay by us, and which will serve us again. But, if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought but borrowed it.

There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn’t some magical thing that just started happening.

Only conformists are ever adored.

Make information free for all.

The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods.

Science is very good at answering the 'how' questions. 'How did the universe evolve to the form that we see?' But it is woefully inadequate in addressing the 'why' questions. 'Why is there a universe at all?' These are the meaning questions, which many people think religion is particularly good at dealing with.

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

That's what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.

Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

We live by information, not by sight.

Most reformers, like a pair of trousers on a windy clothesline, go through a vast deal of vehement motion, but stay in the same place.

I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.

It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.

I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.

Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation.

The "flow of information" through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort of unambiguous measure to this "flow".

Of course former colonial powers are always more present and influential. They're the ones who need to defend the EU's values on the frontlines.

Journalistic information and presentation actually discourage action... we think we know, and because we think we know, we think we care. But it stops there.

The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .

I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.

There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.

Since we are not in the League of Nations in any case, we do not devote our attention to reflecting on its internal reforms.

There's this group online that I frequent. It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.