Ducharme Tree Quotes & Sayings

Most people oversimplify Occam's razor to mean the simplest answer is usually correct. But the real meaning, what the Franciscan friar William of Ockham really wanted to emphasize, is that you shouldn't complicate, that you shouldn't "stack" a theory if a simpler explanation was at the ready. Pare it down. Prune the excess. — Harlan Coben

Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love. — Anonymous

Ted Williams is one of the best hitters ever to play the game, and I didn't get a chance to see him play, so all I could do was read books and look at pictures. — Tony Gwynn

The truth had its place, and it was called a deathbed. — Drew Hayes

Courage is a divine shield and spear. — Matshona Dhliwayo

In education, it is my experience that those lessons which we learn from teachers who are not just good, but who also show affection for the student, go deep into our minds. Lessons from other sorts of teachers may not. Although you may be compelled to study and may fear the teacher, the lessons may not sink in. Much depends on the affection from the teacher. — Dalai Lama XIV

We sat there and I knew that this was how it felt to be totally accepted. You sit close to another person and are understood, everything is understood and nothing is judged and you are indispensable. — Peter Hoeg

Keep this straight in your head: we are not fighting an alien invasion we're leading a revolution . And today the battle begins. — Steven Moffat

Perhaps the unattached, the unwanted, the unloved, could grow to give love as lushly as anyone else. — Vanessa Diffenbaugh

The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies. — Stephen King

The steady states of the fluid matrix of the body are commonly preserved by physiological reactions, i.e., by more complicated processes than are involved in simple physico-chemical equilibria. Special designations, therefore, are appropriate: - "homeostasis" to designate stability of the organism; "homeostatic conditions," to indicate details of the stability; and "homeostatic reactions," to signify means for maintaining stability. — Walter Bradford Cannon

For a theory to be scientific it must be capable of being refuted by the evidence. Given that we have had three decades of rising temperature followed by a decade of stable and slightly falling temperatures worldwide, how many decades would you require before you are convinced that the theory on which you are committing £400bn of taxpayers' money might be slightly wrong? — Peter Lilley