A visitor asked Lincoln what good news he could take home from an audience with the august executive. The president spun a story about a machine that baffled a chess champion by beating him thrice. The stunned champ cried while inspecting the machine, "There's a man in there!"Lincoln's good news, he confided from the heights of leadership, was that there was in fact a man in there.
Shelby FooteStichwörter: compassion humility leadership abraham-lincoln american-civil-war fallibility abraham-lincoln-quotes
Our memory has no guarantees at all, and yet we bow more often than is objectively justified to the compulsion to believe what it says.
Sigmund FreudStichwörter: memory fallibility 1899
We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up.
Ian McDonaldStichwörter: history youth foolishness fallibility invincibility
The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing he cannot have.
Richard M. WeaverStichwörter: arrogance fallibility hubris
When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue, because, as men of science, they know that neither is infallible. But when two theologians differ, since there is no criteria to which either can appeal, there is nothing for it but mutual hatred and an open or covert appeal to force.
Bertrand RussellStichwörter: science belief force argument disagreement fallibility infallible
If God wants something from me, he would tell me. He wouldn't leave someone else to do this, as if an infinite being were short on time. And he would certainly not leave fallible, sinful humans to deliver an endless plethora of confused and contradictory messages. God would deliver the message himself, directly, to each and every one of us, and with such clarity as the most brilliant being in the universe could accomplish. We would all hear him out and shout "Eureka!" So obvious and well-demonstrated would his message be. It would be spoken to each of us in exactly those terms we would understand. And we would all agree on what that message was.
Richard C. CarrierStichwörter: atheism understanding logic wants clarity needs fallibility message brilliance historian silent-god atheist-argument argument-from-god-s-silence internet-infidels richard-carrier
Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the harvest. To be this ploughman, to see my labours result in the furtherance of scientific progress, was the height of my ambition, and now the Swedish Academy of Sciences has come, at this harvest, to add the most brilliant of crowns.
Paul SabatierStichwörter: science ambition metaphor fallibility improvement scientist scientific-theory scientific-progress destructibility swedish-academy-of-sciences
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