Quotes Flashcards
Not excited to begin
Nothing great has great beginnings.
People change…
And forget to tell each other.
If the professor is not capable of giving a class without preparation,
don’t attend.
People should only teach what they have learned organically, through experience and curiosity
…or get another job.
You are as good as…
how nice you are
to people you don’t have to be nice to.
live dangerously!
Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius!
-Nietzsche
Benefits of honest labor
Honor lies in honest toil.
A man’s word is his honor
A hundred years cannot repair a moment’s loss of honor
Honor
honesty, fairness, or integrity in one’s beliefs and actions
Prudence
Care and good sense that someone shows when making a decision
Prudence is not the same thing as caution.
Caution is a helpful strategy when crossing a mine field;
It is a disaster when you’re in a gold rush.
Those who can make you believe absurdities…
Can make you commit atrocities.
Quiet =/= safe
Just because the river is quiet does not mean the crocodiles have left.
There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be…
Because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring (shy and fond of being on one’s own).
Science is a process.
It’s not pretending it has the right answer, it merely has the best process to get closer to that right answer.
Science is an ongoing argument,
one where you show your work and make a prediction about what’s going to happen next.
And you’re not allowed to have magical faeries.
Not allowed to change the explanation based on what just happened.
You must begin again, from first principles, and make a new argument, and show new work, and make a better prediction.
Science isn’t only done in the lab. Every one of us does it at work, daily.
Science isn’t something to believe or not believe.
It’s something to do.
A joke at one’s expense…
Is its own reimbursement
