Russell Jacoby (1945) American historian
Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), pp. 3-4
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 16
Russell Jacoby (1945) American historian
Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), pp. 3-4
“The inability to explain something doesn't mean that it is inexplicable.”
Steven Novella (1964) American neurologist, skepticist
SGU, Podcast #145, April 30th, 2008 http://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcast/sgu/145 <br class="br">The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, Podcast, 2000s <br class="br">Context: The inability to explain something doesn't mean that it is inexplicable. … Always consider the simplest things first. … The inability to explain it doesn't mean that it has to be something fantastical or alien, or that it's unexplainable.
“On Our Inability To Do Much.”
Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930–2002) Dutch computer scientist
Dijkstra (1972) "Structured Programming", Chapter title in O.J. Dahl, E.W. Dijkstra, and C.A.R. Hoare. Academic Press, 1972 ISBN 0122005503.
1970s
“Your Value Doesn't Decrease Based On Someone's Inability To See Your Worth.”
Keanu Reeves (1964) Canadian actor, director, producer and musician
https://successtutorship.com/10-famous-keanu-reeves-quotes/
“The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960) Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader and risk analyst
Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
“The inability to listen and to attend is”
George Long (1800–1879) English classical scholar
An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
Context: The inability to listen and to attend is of course a mental defect; but habit may make the defect so great, that a man's ears may almost lose the faculty of hearing what another man says, and he may be able to hear only the sweet sound of his own voice. Such incapable people are generally great talkers, very tiresome, and bad companions. They cannot be debaters in public assemblies, and can only deliver themselves of their own words.