
Source: Arguably: Selected Essays
Source: The Languages of Pao (1958), Chapter 13 (p. 133)
Source: Arguably: Selected Essays
“In order to see the boundaries of the probabilities, need to try impossible.”
During the fall of Constantinople, when he said that the ships would pass by land.
“In order to see the boundaries of the probabilities, need to try impossible.”
When he said that the ships would pass by land
Source: Ahmet Akgündüz - Mehmed's tolerance http://www.ahmetakyol.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9849&Itemid=47
Source: The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995), Ch. 2 : Science and Hope, p. 28
Source: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
The System of the World (1800)
Remarks to Lord D'Abernon (17 October 1922), quoted in W. M. Knight-Patterson, Germany. From Defeat to Conquest 1913-1933 (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1945), p. 327
1920s
“Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.”
As quoted by LIFE magazine (2 May 1955)
1950s
Variant: Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Preface, “Infinite Possibility” (p. xiii)
The Jungles of Randomness: A Mathematical Safari (1997)
Source: Testimony: its Posture in the Scientific World (1859), p. 14