#sca

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations. ↗

— David Deutsch

#complexity #contain #deepest #explanations #hierarchy

This little kid pointed at me and said, 'You look disgusting!' That was the first time I thought maybe I did. I decided I'd better start eating. I'm just thankful that I made it through with relatively few scars. ↗

— Susan Dey

#decided #did #disgusting #eating #few

Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#day #enough #escape #excuse #get

Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#differ #friend #minds #opinions #scant

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#ephemeral #ever #motive #outlasts #particular

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#catching #chaos #days #defends #hands

I have records in gold, in platinum, I have two Oscars, I have Grammys and so on. ↗

— Celine Dion

#grammys #i #oscars #platinum #records

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#landscape #nature #nature-s-beauty #beauty

I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#i #i think #issues #sense #shared

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity. ↗