“Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Being Late http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21366/Being_Late <br class="br">From the poems written in English
“Faith, if it is ever right about anything, is right by accident.”
Source: 2010s, The Moral Landscape (2010), p. 6
Source: The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
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American author, philosopher and neuroscientist 1967Related quotes
Charles Perrow book Normal Accidents
Source: 1980s and later, Normal Accidents, 1984, p. 356
Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship
Edward Witten (1951) American theoretical physicist
"Edward Witten" interview, Superstrings: A Theory of Everything? (1992) ed. P.C.W. Davies, Julian Brown
Context: It's been said that string theory is part of the physics of the twenty-first century that fell by chance into the twentieth century. That's a remark that was made by a leading physicist about fifteen years ago.... String theory was invented essentially by accident in a long series of events, starting with the Veneziano model... No one invented it on purpose, it was invented in a lucky accident.... By rights, string theory shouldn't have been invented until our knowledge of some of the areas that are prerequisite... had developed to the point that it was possible for us to have the right concept of what it is all about.
“Marcello Dell'Utri is right: Mangano was a hero, because he never invented anything about me.”
Silvio Berlusconi (1936) Italian politician
Statement during a television show on La7 (9 April 2008)
2007
“This is not about classic left-vs-right anymore. (As if that metaphor ever held cogent meaning.)”
David Brin (1950) novelist, short story writer
A rant about stupidity... and the coming civil war... (2009)
Context: This is not about classic left-vs-right anymore. (As if that metaphor ever held cogent meaning.) Not when every measure of national health that conservatives ought to care about — from budget balancing to small business startups, to military readiness, to States' Rights, to the economy, to individual liberty, to control over immigration at our borders — does vastly and demonstrably better under democrats. With nearly 100% perfection.
(Fact avoidance is even worse when you encompass ALL of history. Ask today's conservatives which force destroyed more freedom and nearly every competitive market, across 5,000 years. Which foe of liberty and enterprise did Adam Smith despise? Hint: it wasn't "socialism" or "government bureaucrats.")
No. Given their lack of any other tangible accomplishments across the last fifteen years, one must to conclude that the core agenda of Rush Limbaugh, Rupert Murdoch and their petroprince backers really is quite simple.
To find out just how far they can push "culture war" toward a repeat of 1861.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
1940s, State of the Union Address — Second Bill of Rights (1944)
Tony Blair (1953) former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
In full: Tony Blair's speech http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5382590.stm, BBC News online <br class="br">Attacking David Cameron, during his Labour Party Conference speech on 26 September 2006. <br class="br">2000s
