The Pigman Mr Pignati Quotes & Sayings

Scientists study only those aspects of the universe that it is within their gift to study: what is observable; what is measurable and amenable to statistical analysis; and, indeed, what they can afford to study within the means and time available. Science thus emerges as a giant tautology, a "closed system". It can present us with robust answers only because its practitioners take very great care to tailor the questions. — Colin Tudge

The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students. — Dick Gephardt

But sometimes the quest for the right answer keeps us from testing a variety of good ones. In search of the right answer, we assume every answer other than the one we've settled on must be wrong. Forgetting that some things have more than one good answer. I'd like to think for example, that the question, "How can I love Ken?" might have many good answers, rather than one right one. — Ken Wilson

As far as I can determine, the universe is made of ninety-five percent contradiction. And I'm not certain about the last five percent. — A.E. Marling

God didn't come down and tell me; I had to find it out through many years of experience. The work came first; the inspiration came later. — Ida Rolf

I am the thought you are now thinking. — Douglas Hofstadter

In my opinion , every rich man is a miser. — Michel De Montaigne

Ignorance is fatal. — Ray Bradbury

Books are frozen voices, in the same way that musical scores are frozen music. The score is a way of transmitting the music to someone who can play it, releasing it into the air where it can once more be heard. And the black alphabet marks on the page represent words that were once spoken, if only in the writer's head. They lie there inert until a reader comes along and transforms the letters into living sounds. The reader is the musician of the book: each reader may read the same text, just as each violinist plays the same piece, but each interpretation is different. — Margaret Atwood