Quotes - June 15, 2012

[Warmsoul/Jeanie13]

Thanks Stephen.

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
-- Vannevar Bush

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
-- Pat Paulsen

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith