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“Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.”
Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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“The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.”
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“Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.”
Source : "The Heart of Things".
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“It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.”
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“She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.”
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“Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.”
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“I don't know about technology and I don't know about finance and accounting.”
Source : "Ebbers found guilty over $11bn fraud at WorldCom" by David Teather, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2005. 
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“Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.”
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“If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.”
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“It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour.”
Source : Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.68
