Tentativeness Of Scientific Knowledge Quotes & Sayings

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability. — Confucius

It might be thought that this was a poor way to accumulate a princely fortune
and so it was, a very poor way indeed. But I am on of those that never take on about princely fortunes, and I am quite content if the world is ready to board and lodge me, while I am putting up at this grim sign of the Thunder Cloud. — Herman Melville

We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy Montessori outfits that were invented for semi-imbeciles in Italian slums; or we send them to outdoor schools and give them prizes for sleeping. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself. — Ernst Mach

Do you just want to get by? Or do you want to make me proud? — Patrick Rothfuss

Where you have nothing, there you should want nothing. — Samuel Beckett

Gold tests with fire, woman with gold, man with woman — Seneca.

Give me something about bacteria. Give me something that won't make me feel so inferior — William, Saroyan

I have never been a poster boy for serenity, but I knew I needed to restore some semblance of inner peace. In search of a fix much quicker than my weekly forays into the talking cure, I came upon an ancient and proven practice, one that exists in every culture and religious tradition as a means to attaining calm and an alternate plane of consciousness: an extended fast. Buddha did it, Jesus did it, even Pythagoras and George Bernard Shaw did it. It's like a Cole Porter song from the world's least-fun musical. — David Rakoff

I am not a doctor or a scientist, but merely a passionate layperson, a filter, a messenger. I spoke with so many patients who are living normal, happy, fulfilled lives, and their enthusiasm and great quality of life convinced me that you can indeed live with cancer. — Suzanne Somers

The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time, unless they have faced a similar tragedy. Every parent responds differently. Each parent copes with this nightmare in the best way he or she knows how. — John Walsh

I think there are very few people, in my generation at least, that are that passionate about what they do. — Sasha Grey