I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
Elizabeth PetersThe captains of England and Australia can barely exchange pleasantries these days without a body-language expert immediately declaiming on the angle of their handshakes.
Lawrence BoothTags: media experts handshakes scrutiny body-language cricket england-cricket-team australia-national-cricket-team the-ashes
Fife... simply walked off by himself, into the jungle to look at all the things which would continue to exist after he had ceased to. There were a lot of them. Fife looked at them all. They remained singularly unchanged by his scrutiny.
James JonesTags: fear existence death scrutiny
The devil's happy when the critics run you off.
Criss JamiTags: fear certainty happiness devil persistence confidence judgment uplifting determination happy criticism satan cowardice perseverance ridicule boldness critics scrutiny standing-your-ground
I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?
Criss JamiTags: free-will belief god dream hypocrisy denial uncertainty mother skepticism crime confusion rhetorical apologetics atrocities imprisonment agenda blame bias son scrutiny self-interest biases
Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny — and also in a willingness to revise or abandon your theories when the tests fail (as they usually do).
Stephen Jay GouldTags: science biology evolution rationality evidence rigor objectivity scrutiny
If someone were to propose that the planets go around the sun because all planet matter has a kind of tendency for movement, a kind of motility, let us call it an ‘oomph,’ this theory could explain a number of other phenomena as well. So this is a good theory, is it not? No. It is nowhere near as good as the proposition that the planets move around the sun under the influence of a central force which varies exactly inversely as the square of the distance from the center. The second theory is better because it is so specific; it is so obviously unlikely to be the result of chance. It is so definite that the barest error in the movement can show that it is wrong; but the planets could wobble all over the place, and, according to the first theory, you could say, ‘Well, that is the funny behavior of the ‘oomph.
Richard P. FeynmanTags: science imagination theory evidence rationalization rigor scrutiny pseudoscience explainability
Things always appear clear and simple from behind glass. It is in the thick of tribulations that blurring details arise, complicating my life. You can't rightly judge me, nor can you assist, from a shielded viewpoint.
Richelle E. GoodrichTags: opinions understanding understanding-others judging scrutiny richelle richelle-goodrich judging-people critiquing
The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the ones who feed off of opposition and negative feedback and manage to continue along with a healthy ambition. It is the crazy that teaches us to use our gifts wisely and own all the attackers.
Criss JamiTags: perception strength insanity persistence perspective confidence ambition creativity criticism perseverance opposition artist controversy rebellion gossip slander ridicule positivity libel scrutiny negativity
At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.
Carl SaganTags: science truth balance ideas skepticism open-mindedness open-minded nonsense scrutiny skeptical counterintuitive
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