Peter Wehner Quotes

Politics is not an exact science. That's why in school I loved mathematics. Everything in mathematics was clear to me.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.

It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.

My theory on politics is no one really knows how it works, so I choose not to comment on stuff too outside of my league.

We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

When it comes to politics, there's never a certain yes or no to any situation.

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

Politics is not an exact science.

Politics are not an exact science.

Government is not an exact science.

It is a maxim of wise government to deal with men not as they ought to be but as they are.

Every human creative endeavor is subject to mathematical law that you’re not always going to be right all the time.

I'm not a scientist or a mathematician.

No one knows enough to be a pessimist

Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem.

Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one grain of sand in the wheels is enough to put everything out of gear. One shudders to think to what disaster such a grain of sand may bring a Mathematical brain. Remember Pascal.

The best lesson that any people can learn is that there is no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect, and that any man who is able glibly to answer every question as to how to deal with the evils of the body politic is at best a foolish visionary and at worst an evil-minded quack.

All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since they are also above the reach of the ablest minds in the country; after all the fuss and all the talk, not one of those doctrines has been conclusively proven to be the right one and the best.

We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision.

the more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs, like a centipede, or six, like a lobster. the human consistency and dignity one has been led to expect from one's fellow-man seem actually non-existent. one doubts if they exist to any startling degree even in oneself.

You could try and understand people, you could read books and understand words and concepts and ideas, but you could never understand enough or have enough knowledge to keep away the surprises that both fate and human beings had in store.

Economics is not an exact science.

There are no sects in geometry.