“The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.”
Source: Radiolab episode "The Fact of the Matter" http://www.radiolab.org/2012/sep/24/in-the-valley-of-the-shadow-of-doubt/
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American filmmaker and writer 1948Related quotes
“There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.”
Source: Women
“Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly”
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Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1974), p. 30
“In pursuit of gain, men have begun to consider their violence an article to be bought and sold.”
Source: Apologeticus pro Christianis, Chapter 38
“To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.”
Quoted in The Viking Book of Aphorisms by Wystan Hugh Auden (1962) p. 323
“Life is short, short, brother!
Ain't it the truth?”
"Ain't It the Truth" originally written for Cabin in the Sky (1943), but pulled from the show, and later included in Jamaica (1957) - Lena Horne version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMSyXuvNpeM
Context: Life is short, short, brother!
Ain't it the truth?
And there is no other
Ain't it the truth?
You gotta rock that rainbow while you still got your youth!
Oh! Ain't it the solid truth?
"Quotes", Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957), Mythical Phase: Symbol as Archetype
“Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.”
Source: Death by Black Hole - And Other Cosmic Quandaries