Task Quotes (4)
Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.
The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventure in the Simple and Compex (1994), 374-375.
But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this–that men despair and think things impossible.
Translation of Novum Organum, CIX. In Francis Bacon, James Spedding, The Works of Francis Bacon (1864), Vol. 8, 140-141.
See also: | Despair (5) | Impossible (16) | Obstacle (4) | Progress Of Science (2) | Thinking (56) | Undertake (2)
The task is ... not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.
Quoted in L. Bertalanffy, Problems of Life (1952).
[Magic] enables man to carry out with confidence his important tasks, to maintain his poise and his mental integrity in fits of anger, in the throes of hate, of unrequited love, of despair and anxiety. The function of magic is to ritualize man's optimism, to enhance his faith in the victory of hope over fear. Magic expresses the greater value for man of confidence over doubt, of steadfastness over vacillation, of optimism over pessimism.
Magic, Science and Religion (1925), 90.
See also: | Anger (3) | Confidence (4) | Despair (5) | Doubt (27) | Enable (2) | Faith (28) | Fear (24) | Function (9) | Hate (4) | Hope (14) | Importance (14) | Integrity (2) | Love (29) | Magic (8) | Mind (116) | Pessimism (2) | Ritual (3) | Value (10) | Victory (3)
