Better Quotes (5)
I am just laboring in the vineyard. I am at the operating table, and I make my rounds. I believe there is a cross-fertilization between writing and surgery. If I withdraw from surgery, I would not have another word to write. Having become a writer makes me a better doctor.
[Reply to reporter's question whether he would rather be a full-time writer instead of a surgeon.]
[Reply to reporter's question whether he would rather be a full-time writer instead of a surgeon.]
Quoted in Thomas Lask, 'Publishing:Surgeon and Incisive Writer', New York Times (28 Sep 1979), C24.
I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people.
Statement once told to the author, as quoted in Thomas J. Peters, Liberation Management: Necessary Disorganization for the Nanosecond Nineties (1992), 572.
It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
Utilitarianism (1861), 212.
See also: | Dissatisfaction (2) | Fool (13) | Human Being (3) | Pig (2) | Satisfaction (6) | Socrates (4)
It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.
Quoted in The Mathematical Intelligencer (1991), 13.
Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
In 'Cognition in scientific and everyday domains: comparison and learning implications'. F. Reif and J. H. Larkin, Journal of Research in Science Teaching (1991), 28, 739. In M. Friedman, Sharon Dunwoody, Carol L. Rogers, Communicating Uncertainty (1999), 220.
