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Haldane's Law: The Universe Is Not Only Queerer Than We Suppose, It's Queerer Than We CAN Suppose.
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Haldane's Law: The universe is not only queerer than we suppose,
it's queerer than we CAN suppose.
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Haldane's Law The Universe is not only queerer than we imagine
it is queerer than we CAN imagine....
My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
J. B. S. Haldane [essay, 'Possible Worlds', 1927]...
I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine.
Now my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose....
Now my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we *can* suppose.
I have read and heard many attempts at a systematic account of it, from materialism and theosophy to the Christian systems or that of Kant, and I have always felt that they were too simple....
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves?
Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance....
Reality is not only stranger one imagines, but stranger than one CAN imagine.
-- J. B. S. (the biologist) Haldane...
We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose. (Maxim 48)
We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.
-- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 49...
Homer: I suppose you want to probe me. Well, you might as well get it over with.
Kang: Stop! We have reached the limits of what rectal probing can teach us....