Paul Kalanithi Quotes

Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.

Paul Kalanithi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 1, 1977 - March 9, 2015

Topics

LifeLoveBeautyFearHopeScience

I believe that if your brain has to get to grips with complicated words, then you won't get Alzheimer's. I'm sure it's not true, but I do believe it.

Jo Brand

WordsBrainBelieveYouComplicated

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.

Ruth Hubbard

LiveScienceReligionEconomicsTry

I grew up listening to Dolly Parton and just loving her music.

Diana DeGarmo

MusicListeningLovingUpHerJust

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.

Denis Diderot

LossInnocenceBadCompanyUpMakes

I don't believe I can offend you in a comedy club. I don't believe I can offend you in a concert. A comedy club is a place where you work out material; you're trying material.

Chris Rock

WorkBelieveComedyTryingYouClub

When I see something that I think isn't right, I think I have some kind of, for right or wrong, an obligation to fix it.

Corey Lewandowski

ThinkWrongKindFixRightSee

I hope I can live up to the faith that has been put in me to do a good job.

Clementa C. Pinckney

GoodLiveFaithHopeJobMe

I worked with Snoop, but I would love to work with him again, but DMX... I would love to work with him as well... I met him in Atlanta; I went to one of his concerts; I would love to do a song with him. I respect him and really like his music.

Bow Wow

WorkLoveMusicRespectSongHim

Although police terrorism plays a specific role on behalf of the state, it is not the totality of what state violence looks like or feels like in our communities.

Alicia Garza

PoliceViolenceLooksTerrorismRole

Those critics awards come and go every year, but the finished movie is your work.

Scott Rudin

WorkYearCome And GoGoAwards

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

Rem Koolhaas

LiveAgeYouPossibleSenseForces

Disorder makes me feel at ease if I'm alone, embarrassed if I'm not.

Martin Millar

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