Free The Impossible Takes Longer by David Pratt Page A

Szent-Gyorgyi MEDICINE, 1937
453. I emphasize the extinction between the ideas of the necessity and of the sufficiency of reason as a defense against that mad and self-destructive form of anti-rationalism which seems to declare that because reason is not sufficient, it is not necessary.
    Peter Medawar MEDICINE, i960
454. I know as well as anyone that the intellectual is a dangerous animal ever ready to betray.
    Albert Camus LITERATURE, 1957
455 When an old and distinguished person speaks to you, listen to him carefully and with respect—but do not believe him. Never put your trust in anything but your own intellect.
    Linus Pauling CHEMISTRY, 1954; PEACE, 1962
456. I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence.
    Richard Feynman PHYSICS, 1965
    INSANITY
     
457. We all are born mad. Some remain so.
    Samuel Beckett LITERATURE, 1969
458. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
    Albert Einstein PHYSICS, 1921
459. If I had any nerves, I'd have a nervous breakdown.
    Eugene O'Neill LITERATURE, 1936
460. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
    Bertrand Russell LITERATURE, 1950
461. Nobody would be so demented as to imagine for a moment that when you go to a shrink you get anything resembling good mental health.
    Kary Mullis CHEMISTRY, 1993
462. You never understand everything. When one understands everything, one has gone crazy.
    Philip Anderson PHYSICS, 1977
463. On one occasion a man came to ask me to recommend some of my books, as he was interested in philosophy. I did so, but he returned next day saying that he had been reading one of them, and had found only one statement he could understand, and that one seemed to him false. I asked him what it was, and he said it was the statement that Julius Caesar is dead. When I asked him why he did not agree, he drew himself up and said: "Because I am Julius Caesar."
    Bertrand Russell LITERATURE, 1950
    GENIUS AND TALENT
     
464. Without passion there is no genius.
    Theodor Mommsen LITERATURE, 1902
465. The popular mind imagines the scientist as a lonely genius. In reality, few of us are geniuses, and even fewer are lonely.
    J. Michael Bishop MEDICINE, 1989
466. Talent fulfilled brings the deepest content that an individual can know.
    Pearl S. Buck LITERATURE, 1938
467. How quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of the intellectuals!
    Saul Bellow LITERATURE, 1976
468. Everyone thinks that having a talent is a matter of luck; no one thinks that luck could be a matter of talent.
    Jacinto Benavente LITERATURE, 1922
    KNOWLEDGE AND IMAGINATION
     
469. The larger the circle of light becomes, the greater the perimeter of darkness around it.
    Albert Einstein PHYSICS, 1921
470. I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
    Richard Feynman PHYSICS, 1965
471. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
    Albert Einstein PHYSICS, 1921
472. If no one has been annoyed for some time by what he sees to be your irresponsibility, you should consider whether you are holding your imagination too much in check.
    EdmundPhelps ECONOMICS, 2006
    MEMORY AND OBLIVIO
     
473. Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
    SaulBellow LITERATURE, 1976
474. An individual, a society without memory, is a sick individual, a sick society.
    HeinrichBoll LITERATURE, 1972
475. I personally have never believed in the therapeutic effect of "letting grass grow over the past."
    Willy Brandt PEACE, 1971
476. I seek in my writing to hold back time so that the present is not