Ian Goldin Quotes

He can't decide whether to leave his visor half open or half closed.

I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all.

One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.

What happened to me is that as I grew up, I found that I was smart. My mother had insisted on that you see. Oh, but I loved to play ball. I loved the physical aspect. So you have one leg in one field, and one leg in the other and you're nowhere.

The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.

As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.

I think if I hadn't become a sociologist, I would have become very anti-intellectual.

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?

The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to its improvement.

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.

The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.

Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment.

Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.

the cultivation and encouragement of the mechanic and of the elegant arts, the advancement of literature, and the progress of the sciences, ornamental and profound.

Life itself is controversy.

How long halt ye between two opinions?

We have therefore decided that in the most pleasant city of Naples there should be teaching of the arts and of all disciplines, so that those who are starved for knowledge will find it in our own kingdom, and will not be forced, in their search for knowledge, to become pilgrims and to beg in foreign lands

I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways.

The individual in physical science is nothing; in human science everything.

The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath.

I loved everything. I loved sciences and I loved humanities. But ultimately, I felt that in the humanities, you know, you're writing about things that already exist. But in the sciences, you're discovering things that no one has known before. Ultimately I chose psychology because it seemed to combine science with things that I liked to think about.

I know that science is very interested in answers, and I'm just happy with a good question.