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“The Professor never really seemed to care whether we figured out the right answer to a problem. He preferred our wild, desperate guesses to silence, and he was even more delighted when those guesses led to new problems that took us beyond the original one. He had a special feeling for what he called the "correct miscalculation," for he believed that mistakes were often as revealing as the right answers.”
― The Housekeeper and the Professor
― The Housekeeper and the Professor
“She lay outside in the courtyard, staring up at the raindrops… feeling them hit her body… trying to guess where one would land next. The nuns called again, threatening that pneumonia might make an insufferably headstrong child a lot less curious about nature.”
― Angels & Demons
― Angels & Demons
“If you can get others to believe that your random guesses are actual answers, they’ll never guess that you never understood the question in the first place.”
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“Predictions are but guesses - when they come true, they are prophecies; when they don't, we salvage the situation by calling them allegories.”
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“Hate will sharpen observation, affording opportunity for many a shrewd guess, and the construction of clever and false theories, but will leave the observer blind to the whole.”
― The Last Castle
― The Last Castle
“This slow debate about the rain: it's not about rain at all, but the fragility of what we know. We're all just guessing.”
― The Intuitionist
― The Intuitionist
“Proformas rarely perform; missed projections are more often the norm. Still, we skew them up high, we miss but we try, for proformas which rarely perform.”
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“I want to ‘think’ that I have all the answers. But if I ‘think’, I soon realize that what I thought to be answers were guesses. And if I ‘think’ yet again, I begin to realize that since God has all the answers He never hands me a guess.”
― Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
― Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
“It goes on top and breaks down,
It can emit a high or low sound.
Each atom of such noisy chute
Exhale the aroma of a ripe fruit.”
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It can emit a high or low sound.
Each atom of such noisy chute
Exhale the aroma of a ripe fruit.”
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