No one is ever more him<br>herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open.
Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries.
Deductivism in mathematical literature and inductivism in scientific papers are simply the postures we choose to be seen in when the curtain goes up and the public sees us. The theatrical illusion is shattered if we ask what goes on behind the scenes. In real life discovery and justification are almost always different processes.
To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind.
Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.
Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.
A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.
No one is ever more himherself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open.
Herman Cain said, starting today, if you buy into his 9-9-9 plan, he'll throw in a free 32-ounce soda.
Acting was important, but it was not as important as getting an education, and I credit my parents with a lot of that.