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.
It is true that in quantum theory we cannot rely on strict causality. But by repeating the experiments many times, we can finally derive from the observations statistical distributions, and by repeating such series of experiments, we can arrive at...
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But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
We cannot allow those with mental illness or record of hate or violence access guns and terrorize this country.
If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.
The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.
It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of...
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
Europe has united, China is growing speedily and Russia possesses immense power in terms of fuel resources. The US administration cannot do anything about it.
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For related reflections on resolve and permanence, see Government and He.
