Cannot Quotes
On what cannot be explained, shrunk, or ignored.
Several quotes here sit at the edge of science and philosophy - the statistical, non-deterministic nature of quantum experiments, and the strange fact that a mind cannot fully comprehend itself. Make offers a more constructive counterpoint.
When we have machines that are as intelligent - and then twice as intelligent - as we are, there is no reason why that relationship cannot be synergistic rather than antagonistic.
I'm against high taxes. But we certainly cannot be so anorexic in government that we cannot function.
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I certainly won't vote for Hillary Clinton, but I cannot and will not vote for Donald Trump.
The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If we do not develop, we shrink and shrivel.
If matter cannot be destroyed, cannot be annihilated, it could not have been created. The indestructible must be uncreatable.
If you're holding onto negative stuff from before, you cannot deliver excellence.
Folks, do you agree with me that we cannot afford four more years of Barack Obama?
When it is fair, American workers can compete and win. I cannot support the TPP in its current form because it doesn't provide that level playing field.
The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.
We cannot afford four more years of this misguided socialist policies from President Obama and his administration.
We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our obligation to bring about stability in Iraq.
Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.
The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.
We have two political parties in this country; we cannot have one of them be abandoned to complete nutcases. We've got to have two good political parties.
What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.
Foreign policy must be about priorities. The United States cannot do everything everywhere.
Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
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For related reflections on resolve and permanence, see Government and He.
