Banesh Quotes

#1. The great Tao is universal like a flood ... All creatures depend on it, and it denies nothing to anyone. It does its work, but it makes no claims for itself. It clothes and feeds all, but it does not lord it over them.

Lao-Tzu

#2. To pry into the secrets of this world, we must make experiments. But experiment is a clumsy instrument, afflicted with a fatal determinacy which destroys causality.

Banesh Hoffmann

#3. He was responsible for administering an army that lacked time-tested procedures and routinized policies, so every decision became an improvisational act.

Joseph J. Ellis

#4. At the time I thought what I had with you and your mother was better than nothing. But if you can't tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.

Cassandra Clare

#5. No longer was light analogous to the discharge of a blunderbuss, but rather to the pulsating flight of birds.

Banesh Hoffmann

#6. Every new discovery in science brings with it a host of new problems, just as the invention of the automobile brought with it gas stations, roads, garages, mechanics, and a thousand other subsidiary details.

Banesh Hoffmann

#7. These people hate the United States, not for what we do, but for who we are and what we are.

Paul Bremer

#8. Build a company that idiots could run because eventually they will.

Keith Rabois

#9. It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

Jodi Picoult

#10. But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and direction and to combine according to the parallelogram law; and many of them are not at all reminiscent of journeys.

Banesh Hoffmann

#11. My own reasons for favouring talk of natural kinds is just that I believe the best accounts of the success of scientific theories presupposes the existence of natural kinds.

Hilary Kornblith

#12. You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade's edge and its tip.

Frank Herbert