Quotes About Norman levitt

We are the source, and the only source, of the values we embrace and advocate, even when the intended beneficiaries are nonhuman entities. Whatever rules we come to live by, we have created-not received-them.

Since so many research conclusions depend on essentially mathematical ideas-the principles of statistical and probabilistic inference-and since even the best-trained physicians tend to have only a modest mathematical education, physicians end up taking many of these conclusions on faith.

Chopra is vastly fond of the word "quantum," and it gives a distinct coloration to his pitch.; In the context of his discourses, "quantum" is chiefly flaunted before audiences who would run in terror from any discussion of self-adjoint operators on a separable complex Hilbert space, though they might be lured back by the suggestion that Hilbert space is a domain of inexpressible spiritual bliss.