Quotes

Quotes

“Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.”

— Tukey, J. W. (1962). The Future of Data Analysis. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 33(1), 1–67. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2237638

“What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn’t make it worse. Not being open about it doesn’t make it go away. And because it’s true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn’t there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.”

— Eugene T. Gendlin. (1981). Focusing (Second). Bantam. https://bookshop.org/p/books/focusing-eugene-t-gendlin/f5b59136422f1a0b (Original work published 1978)

“Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow colour blind.”

— Austin O’Malley

If you do not have the means of violence, you aren’t peaceful; you’re harmless.

— Deviant Ollam (Director). (2022, November 7). Lawyer. Passport. Locksmith. Gun. (A Talk About Risk & Preparedness). https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=6ihrGNGesfI

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

— C. S. Lewis. (1970). God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics. Eerdmans Publishing Company.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

— Sagan, C. (2021). Broca`s brain: Reflections on the romance of science. Ballantine Books.