Bill Gates (1955) American business magnate and philanthropist
Interview from Programmers at Work (1986)
Bill Gates (1955) American business magnate and philanthropist
Interview from Programmers at Work (1986)
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 60
Jun Hong Lu (1959) Australian Buddhist leader
Quotes from Words of Wisdoms Vol.2
Kenneth N. Waltz book Man, the State, and War
Source: Man, the State, and War (1959), Chapter III, Some Implications Of The First Image, p. 69
“Anything new that we learn about the world involves plausible reasoning”
George Pólya (1887–1985) Hungarian mathematician
Induction and Analogy in Mathematics (1954)
Context: Demonstrative reasoning penetrates the sciences just as far as mathematics does, but it is in itself (as mathematics is in itself) incapable of yielding essentially new knowledge about the world around us. Anything new that we learn about the world involves plausible reasoning, which is the only kind of reasoning for which we care in everyday affairs.
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
" Take Something Like a Star http://somethingbeautiful.typepad.com/blog/2004/10/robert_frost_to.html" (1949) <br class="br">General sources <br class="br">Context: O Star (the fairest one in sight)<br>We grant your loftiness the right<br>To some obscurity of cloud —<br>It will not do to say of night,<br>Since dark is what brings out your light.<br>Some mystery becomes the proud.<br>But to be wholly taciturn<br>In your reserve is not allowed.<br>Say something to us that we can learn<br>By heart and when alone repeat.<br>Say something! And it says "I burn."