According to the anthropic principle proponents, if the universal constants (e.g. gravitation, the strong force, etc.) were just a nose-hair off, the universe as we know it would not exist; stars wouldn't form and there would be no life and no us. Th...
As I have earlier noted, the most important things in life and in business can’t be measured. The trite bromide 'If you can measure it, you can manage it' has been a hindrance in the building a great real-world organization, just as it has been a h...
My recommendation instead, however, is that we do not surrender questions of value, whether absolute matters of truth, goodness, and beauty or relative judgment of more or less truth, goodness, and beauty. With those questions to the fore, in fact, w...
The scientist in me worries that my happiness is nothing more than a symptom of bipolar disease, hypergraphia from a postpartum disorder. The rest of me thinks that artificially splitting off the scientist in me from the writer in me is actually a ki...
The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.
Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum.
...we, and I mean humans, are meaning makers. We do not discover the meanings of mysterious things, we invent them. We make meanings because meaninglessness terrifies us above all things. More than snakes, even. More than falling, or the dark. We tri...
What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.
There is no conscience in a real war.
Real lives have no end. Real books have no end.
If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.
Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
Suffering is a part of real life lesson.
With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.
Domain names and websites are Internet real estate.
What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.
Actors are seen as celebrities, but they're just real people with families.
I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
With a lot of actors, you've got to chip through the surface to see who the real person is.
Real estate is one sector that India is not very proud of.
The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
