#thesis

There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the little chants and songs we use to teach young children have choruses and refrains. We are attracted to repetition, even as adults; we want the stimulus and the reward again and again, and in music we get it. Perhaps, therefore, we should not be surprised, should not complain if the balance sometimes shifts too far and our musical sensitivity becomes a vulnerability. ↗

— Oliver Sacks

#hypotheses #hypothesis #music #neuroscience #psychology

It is no shame to have a dirty face- the shame comes when you keep it dirty. ↗

— Truman Capote

#shame

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness. ↗

— Aaron Copland

#antithesis #form #i #i am #inspiration

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#as far as #far #go #hypothesis #more

The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#greatest problem #hypothesis #mathematicians #now #probably

It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#know #means #rise #sun #tomorrow

I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort. ↗

— Don Young

#benefits #college #comes #comfort #got

I want to increase our spending on research and development by 25%. That's something the U.S. does very well. That dynamism alongside a welfare state in the European community - that's the synthesis I want to achieve. ↗

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

#alongside #community #development #does #dynamism

This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic. ↗

— Allen West

#antithesis #constitutional #constitutional republic #liberal #progressive

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#before #breakfast #day #discard #every