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“The Professor never really seemed to care whether we figured out the right answer to a problem. He preferred our wild, desperate guesses to silence, and he was even more delighted when those guesses led to new problems that took us beyond the original one. He had a special feeling for what he called the "correct miscalculation," for he believed that mistakes were often as revealing as the right answers.”
― The Housekeeper and the Professor
― The Housekeeper and the Professor

“She lay outside in the courtyard, staring up at the raindrops� feeling them hit her body� trying to guess where one would land next. The nuns called again, threatening that pneumonia might make an insufferably headstrong child a lot less curious about nature.”
― Angels & Demons
― Angels & Demons

“If you can get others to believe that your random guesses are actual answers, they’ll never guess that you never understood the question in the first place.”
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“Predictions are but guesses - when they come true, they are prophecies; when they don't, we salvage the situation by calling them allegories.”
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“Hate will sharpen observation, affording opportunity for many a shrewd guess, and the construction of clever and false theories, but will leave the observer blind to the whole.”
― The Last Castle
― The Last Castle

“This slow debate about the rain: it's not about rain at all, but the fragility of what we know. We're all just guessing.”
― The Intuitionist
― The Intuitionist

“Proformas rarely perform; missed projections are more often the norm. Still, we skew them up high, we miss but we try, for proformas which rarely perform.”
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“I want to ‘think� that I have all the answers. But if I ‘think�, I soon realize that what I thought to be answers were guesses. And if I ‘think� yet again, I begin to realize that since God has all the answers He never hands me a guess.”
― Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
― Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living

“It goes on top and breaks down,
It can emit a high or low sound.
Each atom of such noisy chute
Exhale the aroma of a ripe fruit.”
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It can emit a high or low sound.
Each atom of such noisy chute
Exhale the aroma of a ripe fruit.”
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