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He who will not economize will have to agonize.Confucius
For every living creature that succeeds in getting a footing in life there are thousands or millions that perish. There is an enormous random scattering for every seed that comes to life. This does not remind us of intelligent human design. "If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind and weather - assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence."J.W.N. Sullivan
A reasonable probability is the only certainty.E.W. Howe
We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.Werner Heisenberg
What happens depends on our way of observing it or on the fact that we observe it.Werner Heisenberg
My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we *can* suppose.J.B.S. Haldane, "On Being the Right Size" in the (1928) book "Possible Worlds"
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.Alfred North Whitehead
Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phatasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.Ralph Waldo Emerson
[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit.Battaille