#ok

I think because I am a proven rookie that it is going to help me in the long run. ↗

— Andrew Bogut

#because #going #help #i #i am

One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness. ↗

— David Bohm

#basic #commitments #deeper #derived #drops

Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It's like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, its far over 20%. ↗

— David Bohm

#case #cases #doctor #fact #far

No, that's poker. To win, you've gotta get damned lucky. ↗

— Wilford Brimley

#get #gotta #lucky #poker #win

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#fallen #heroes #individually #invoke #our

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#itself #just #looking #physicist #way

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#dumb #guy #i #i believe #i believe that

The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter. ↗

— Roberto Bolano

#although #control #day #day to day #got

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#amused #contempt #eyes #looking #looks

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#book #classic #written