Sean Jenan > Sean's Quotes

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend almost all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like”
― Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

“All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.”
― Neil Gaiman

“The answers you get depend on the questions you ask.”
― Thomas S. Kuhn

“The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims

“What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.”
― Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

“Only someone who (like the Intuitionist) denies that the concepts and axioms of classical set theory have any meaning could be satisfied with such a solution, not someone who believes them to describe some well-determined reality. For in reality Cantor's conjecture must be either true or false, and its undecidability from the axioms as known today can only mean that these axioms do not contain a complete description of reality.”
― Kurt Godël