Manfred Eigen Famous Quotes
A theory has only the alternative of being wrong. A model has a third possibility - it might be right but irrelevant.
Manfred Eigen Quotations
"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it."
Agatha Christie
Evil to him who evil thinks.
King Edward the Third
"Adversity makes a man wise, not rich."
Romanian Proverb
"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also."
Carl Gustav Jung
"One of the few good things about modern times If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us."
Kurt Vonnegut
"Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand."
Anon
"Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools."
Sir Richard Steele
"To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive."
James Boswell
There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder.
Homer
I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.
Peter Hoeg