Wisdom Quotes · Page 52
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“Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.”
“It is not unscientific to make a guess, although many people who are not in science think it is.”
“We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning.”
“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
“If you have a theory, you must try to explain what's good and what's bad about it equally.”
“I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.”
“I swear to the Lord I still can't see why Democracy means everybody but me.”
“I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.”
“My motto, As I live and learn, is: Dig And Be Dug In Return.”
“It's not easy to know what is true for you or me at twenty-two, my age.”
“What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture.”
“The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.”
“Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.”
“Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.”
“I believe that none can 'save' his fellow man by making a choice for him.”
“Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.”
“The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.”