Ones - Quotes
One doesn`t recognize the really important moments in one`s life until it`s too late.
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
Science is much more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking. This is central to its success. Science invites us to let the facts in, even when they don`t conform to our preconceptions. It counsels us to carry alternative hypotheses in our heads and see which ones best match the facts. It urges on us a fine balance between no-holds-barred openness to new ideas, however heretical, and the most rigorous skeptical scrutiny of everything - new ideas and established wisdom. We need wide appreciation of this kind of thinking. It works. It`s an essential tool for a democracy in an age of change. Our task is not just to train more scientists but also to deepen public understanding of science.
There are two kinds of people: ones that are trying to build their future and ones that are trying to rebuild their past.
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
It is the simple hypotheses of which one must be most wary; because these are the ones that have the most chances of passing unnoticed.
The stories we hear in childhood are the ones we remember all our lives.
From the moment we are born we are presented with absolute facts rather than situated ones. We aren`t taught that distinctions such as young and old or healthy and unhealthy are social constructions and that their meaning depends on context. We are conditioned to learn about and see the world as a set of facts, such as 1 + 1 = 2. The world is far more subtle than such facts allow, and we should have learned that 1 + 1=2 only if we are using the base 10 number system, but that it equals 10 if the number system is base 2, and that 1 + 1 = 1 if we are adding one wad of chewing gum to one wad of chewing gum.
A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.
The quality of one`s emotional life changes over the years [...], but the basic instincts and desires, greed and hope, seem to remain constant.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
I wonder why the promises I make to other people always become more important than the ones I make to myself.
Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
Rest, nature, books, music, love for one`s neighbor - such is my idea of happiness.