Pierre Duhem Quotes

#1. Then the cow asked:
"What is a mirror?"
"It is a hole in the wall," said the cat. "You look in it, and there you see the picture, and it is so dainty and charming and ethereal and inspiring in its unimaginable beauty that your head turns round and round, and you almost swoon with ecstasy.

Mark Twain

#2. Noboby is succeeded by going astray from Allah

Salman Farooqi

#3. everything resulting from socio-hierarchical inequality or any other form of inequality among people (including age). All distance between people is suspended, and a special carnival category goes into effect: free and familiar contact among people.

Mikhail Bakhtin

#4. In summary, our world is doomed.

Charlie Brooker

#5. It is very important what not to do.

Iggy Pop

#6. it's better to be happy...if you can..!!

Charles Bukowski

#7. I got very keen on biography because I wanted to change it. I wanted to stretch the form. I think of it as a way of capturing souls.

Ann Wroe

#8. The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.

Pierre Duhem

#9. Wars start when two parties haven't taken the time to learn each other's tongues

Tomson Highway

#10. Even in the most stressed times there is always time for reading.

Emilie And Stephanie

#11. Selling wine is all about sizing people up, and it takes a certain amount of chutzpah. The tableside bottle sell is a very funny thing - you take a look at the guy's blazer, what kind of shoes he's wearing, what kind of broad he's with. Is he trying to be a hero?

Joe Bastianich

#12. God was some fuzzy, abstract triangle beyond my comprehension. I honestly thought that it was supposed to be that way.

G. Nieves

#13. The most revealing books are the Holy Koran and the Holy Bible. The Bhagavad Gita is a great book as well, and the works of Buddha. These are the major influences on the world.

RZA

#14. If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics.

Pierre Duhem

#15. Do you answer a question directly?"
"Hard to say. Ah, there, I've done it again

Leigh Bardugo

#16. The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian scepticism.

Pierre Duhem

#17. Go to lots of interviews, at least one a month even when you don't need a job, to keep in training for when you do.

Jilly Cooper