Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused w...ith the tree of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday ...purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am looking over Self Control again, & my opinion is confirmed of its being an excellently-meant, elegantly-written... Work, without anything of Nature or Probability in it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have been too long acquainted with human nature to have great regard for human testimony; and a very great degree of probability..., supported by various concurrent circumstances, conspiring in one point, will have much greater weight with me, than human testimony upon oath, or even upon honour; both of which I have frequently seen considerably warped by private views.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women generally should be taught that the rough life men must needs lead, in order to be healthy, useful and manly men, would prec...lude the possibility of a great degree of physical perfection, especially in color. It is not a bad reflection to know that in all probability the human animal has endowments enough without aspiring to be the beauty of all creation as well as the ruler.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing stat...e of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live; there shall be a better, please God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Above all, however, the machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope ... it operates according to the pure logic of proba...bility. For this reason I assert that the robot perceives more accurately than man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Conditional love is love that is turned off and on....Some parents only show their love after a child has done something that plea...ses them. "I love you, honey, for cleaning your room!" Children who think they need to earn love become people pleasers, or perfectionists. Those who are raised on conditional love never really feel loved.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Liberty is a blessing so inestimable, that, wherever there appears any probability of recovering it, a nation may willingly run ma...ny hazards, and ought not even to repine at the greatest effusion of blood or dissipation of treasure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »