“An exception is nothing else than a rule that applies exceptionally.”
Fausto Cercignani (1941) Italian scholar, essayist and poet
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“An exception is nothing else than a rule that applies exceptionally.”
Fausto Cercignani (1941) Italian scholar, essayist and poet
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“Suriname is a country where rules apply and order prevails.”
Albert Jubithana Surinamese government minister
Source: Albert Jubithana (2022) cited in " Suriname not ready to welcome back CAL https://www.nationnews.com/2022/01/12/suriname-not-ready-welcome-back-cal/" on NationNews, January 2022.
“Rules or laws are only beautiful if they don't apply to you.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
Judith Martin (1938) American etiquette expert
Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior
“What if there is a ruling that, uh, you cannot apply civil penalties to, uh, practicing sodomites?”
Howard Phillips (politician) (1941–2013) American politician
What is Christian Exodus? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGjF2gRO0xk 18:03
Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator
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Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), The Harmony of the Worlds [Episode 3]
Context: As a boy Kepler had been captured by a vision of cosmic splendour, a harmony of the worlds which he sought so tirelessly all his life. Harmony in this world eluded him. His three laws of planetary motion represent, we now know, a real harmony of the worlds, but to Kepler they were only incidental to his quest for a cosmic system based on the Perfect Solids, a system which, it turns out, existed only in his mind. Yet from his work, we have found that scientific laws pervade all of nature, that the same rules apply on Earth as in the skies, that we can find a resonance, a harmony, between the way we think and the way the world works.
When he found that his long cherished beliefs did not agree with the most precise observations, he accepted the uncomfortable facts, he preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions. That is the heart of science.
James Frazer book The Golden Bough
Source: The Golden Bough (1890), Chapter 4, Magic and Religion.
Context: From the earliest times man has been engaged in a search for general rules whereby to turn the order of natural phenomena to his own advantage, and in the long search he has scraped together a great hoard of such maxims, some of them golden and some of them mere dross. The true or golden rules constitute the body of applied science which we call the arts; the false are magic.
Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English mathematician and philosopher
Source: 1910s, An Introduction to Mathematics (1911), ch. 15.
Zhiar Ali (1999) Kurdish human rights activist and artist
Ali on freedom to choose one's religion and lifestyle, via Twitter.