Edmund Berkeley quotes

“Most problems have either many answers or no answer. Only a few problems have one answer.”
-- Edmund Berkeley

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“If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.”

“Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.

“Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.”

“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”

“A lot of the questions that anyone would naturally have about their family, you'll get much of the answers for, or at least hints to where it will go, in the future.”

“So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question.”

“According to FBI statistics for 2008, only 22 percent of murder victims were killed by strangers. More than 30 percent were slain by family members, boyfriends, and girlfriends. Nearly half of all murders were committed by friends, neighbors, and casual acquaintances.”

“Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.”

“Training was one thing, reality another.”

“You see, but you do not observe.”

Source : "A Scandal in Bohemia" (1891)