#contradict

Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your commands that are not against God. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#commands #contradiction #fully #god #great

When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness. ↗

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

#aim #between #captured #contradiction #distinguish

The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in the infinitely small world of particle physics indicate randomness and chance, and I do not find it any more difficult to live with the paradox of a universe of randomness and chance and a universe of pattern and purpose than I do with light as a wave and light as a particle. Living with contradiction is nothing new to the human being. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#science

You are the most ludicrous excuse for a man I've ever known - but there isn't a centimetre of you that I don't think is perfect. ↗

— Lucy Robinson

#ludicrous-excuse-of-a-man #perfection #love

My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true. ↗

— John Astin

#background #basically #blood #contradicts #dad

Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction. ↗

— Richard Savage

#fiction #much #part #polly #sex

The four stages of acceptance: 1. This is worthless nonsense. 2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view. 3. This is true, but quite unimportant. 4. I always said so." (Review of The Truth About Death, in: Journal of Genetics 1963, Vol. 58, p.464) ↗

— J.B.S. Haldane

#dispute #haldane #opportunism #science #self-contradiction

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#compromise #compromised #contradictory #defeat #men

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#big #big shoes #cane #coat #contradiction

Good morning is a contradiction of terms. ↗

— Jim Davis

#contradiction #good #good morning #terms