Hinman Howard Quotes & Sayings

Within ten days you will seem a god to those to whom you are now a beast and an ape, if you will return to your principles and the worship of reason. — Marcus Aurelius

A Every man has a king and a fool in him and the one you talk to reacts. — Mike Murdock

The thought of death destroys some people and saves others. — Marty Rubin

But was chance necessary? Hubbard, too, thought about the parallels between the Mandelbrot set and the biological encoding of information, but he bristled at any suggestion that such processes might depend on probability. "There is no randomness in the Mandelbrot set," Hubbard said. "There is no randomness in anything that I do. Neither do I think that the possibility of randomness has any direct relevance to biology. In biology randomness is death, chaos is death. Everything is highly structured. When you clone plants, the order in which the branches come out is exactly the same. The Mandelbrot set obeys an extraordinarily precise scheme leaving nothing to chance whatsoever. I strongly suspect that the day somebody actually figures out how the brain is organized they will discover to their amazement that there is a coding scheme for building the brain which is of extraordinary precision. The idea of randomness in biology is just reflex. — James Gleick

Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations. — Learned Hand