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.
The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything.
Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.
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The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.
I am afraid that, like Timon of Athens, I just cannot let go of my friendships.
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
In every woman's wardrobe, there are certain accessories that cannot be separated from their back stories.
I think one of the biggest myths is that education cannot flourish with regulation. Another myth is that wherever the state sponsors education, it doesn't flourish.
Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.
Any film that can entertain and has a message and cannot be slotted into any genre is unique.
You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.
The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.
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For related reflections on resolve and permanence, see Government and He.
