"What use are experimental results to someone who is interested in something vastly larger and more complicated, perhaps fundamentally different than anything that can be studied in a laboratory setting?"
React to this quote
More by Charles Plott
See allResonant Thoughts
"In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to make him contented with a condition of slavery, commits the highest crime against God and man…"
"I am too sick to work and haven't money enough to last 2 months and pay income tax. I want to keep going but do not see quite how, and there is no alternative - rather than justify my mother's 25-year…"
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"And I came .. .It was just after the war and I thought it was a little early to get over there . So I spent…"
— Joan Mitchell"An icon of the struggle for life."
— Nkosi Johnson"Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence. The body we…"
— Oliver Lodge"“Someone out there is waiting for you for a lifetime. You cannot afford to fail them; failing them is faili…"
— T. B. Joshua"It is necessary to protect oneself from over exaggeration; one must not suppose that there exists, even in …"
— Alfred Binet"All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly ba…"
— Olaf Stapledon
Related Thinkers
Related Topics
Deep Dives
- David Cay Johnston on life
- Bernard Lietaer on life
- Rudiger Dornbusch on life
- David Cay Johnston on politics
- David Cay Johnston on time
- David Cay Johnston on justice
- David Cay Johnston on knowledge
- David Cay Johnston on art
- David Cay Johnston on philosophy
- David Cay Johnston on money
- justice & Beauty
- justice & Change