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  • We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Errors Quotes , Giving Quotes
  • With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Giving Quotes , Feelings Quotes
  • To draw a tree, to pay such close attention to every aspect of a tree, is an act of reverence not only toward the tree, and toward the earth itself, but also our human connection to it. This is one of the magical things about drawing - it gives us almost visionary moments of connectedness.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Lee Quotes , Drawing Quotes , Giving Quotes
  • I don't watch the nightly newscasts on TV . . . nor do I watch the endless hours of people giving their opinion about things. I don't read the editorial pages; I don't read the columnists. It can be a frustrating experience to pay attention to somebody's false opinion.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , People Quotes , Giving Quotes