“Old questions are not answered—they only go out of fashion.”
Donald A. Schön (1930–1997) American academic
Schon (1971, 42) cited in: William G. Weissert, Carol S. Weissert (2012) Governing Health: The Politics of Health Policy. p. 296
Endgame (1957)
“Old questions are not answered—they only go out of fashion.”
Donald A. Schön (1930–1997) American academic
Schon (1971, 42) cited in: William G. Weissert, Carol S. Weissert (2012) Governing Health: The Politics of Health Policy. p. 296
“Old answers never perfectly suit new questions, except in the most formal, logical circumstances.”
Marvin Minsky (1927–2016) American cognitive scientist
K-Linesː A Theory of Memory (1980)
Brian Greene book The Fabric of the Cosmos
The Fabric of the Cosmos : Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (2004), p. 17
Context: Superstring theory starts off by proposing a new answer to an old question: what are the smallest, indivisible constituents of matter? For many decades, the conventional answer has been that matter is composed of particles... that can be modeled as dots that are indivisible and that have no size and no internal structure. Conventional theory claims, and experiments confirm, that these particles combine in various ways to produce protons, neutrons, and a wide variety of atoms and molecules... Superstring theory tells a different story.... it does claim that these particles are not dots. Instead... every particle is composed of a tiny filament of energy, some hundred billion billion times smaller than a single atomic nucleus, which is shaped like a string. And just as a violin string can vibrate in different patterns, each of which produces a different musical tone, the filaments of superstring theory can also vibrate in different patterns. But these vibrations... produce different particle properties.... All species of particles are unified in superstring theory since each arises from a different vibrational pattern executed by the same underlying entity.
Harvey Flaumenhaft (1938) American writer
Preface to Masterworks of Discovery series (2011)
“Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.”
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
As quoted by Josiah Quincy III, in Looking Toward Sunset : From Sources Old and New, Original and Selected (1865) by Lydia Maria Francis Child, p. 431
Attributed
Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) Irish novelist, playwright, and poet
An explanation of the universe outside the room of Endgame
Endgame (1957)
“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar
Source: The Bell Jar
Elaine Dundy (1921–2008) American journalist, actress
Source: The Dud Avocado
William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
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