Believe nothing

Healthy preschool children have rich fantasy lives and do not have the ability to understand that real people do not bounce back to life like cartoon characters. Healthy adolescents believe nothing bad will happen to them if they engage in risky behaviors. 

Euclid (c. 300 B.c.), a prominent mathematician of Greco-Roman antiquity, understood that a point has no dimension at all. A line has one dimension length. A plane had two dimensions. A solid had three dimensions. But there he stopped—believing nothing could have four dimensions. The Greek philosopher Aristotle (384—322 B.c.) echoed these beliefs in On Heaven ... 

The law at which we have arrived (which is merely a description of the appearances, and involves, I believe, nothing hypothetic), is certainly not provided for in the corpuscular philosophy of the day, and is altogether so extraordinary, that I may be excused for not speculating further upon its cause, till its various bearings, and certain collateral subjects, be fully investigated. 

I do in a way. I believe nothing is wasted, that there is no real failure in natural... 

You can read wright and almost any thang you want to. But if you dont have a education you cant do nothing much. There is some studies that I dont like such as science and some other studies. If I was to tell you the truth I dont believe nothing they say. 

Take the ideas and practices in this book as stimulation. If they resonate with something in you, try them out. Do they fit in your personal experience. Do they expand your understandings. Do they need modifi-cation. Are they appealing to the better or worse sides of your personality. Should some be rejected. As Gurdjieff emphasized, you should believe nothing about his teachings or, for that matter, my version of them. If the ideas and practices appeal to you, be open to them until you feel you have a basic understanding, and then test them. If they work for you, build on them and go on. 

As manufacturers, we have the obligation to the public, to the industry, and to ourselves, to use our best efforts to prevent this type of exaggeration. If this practice is allowed to run rampant, the consumer, a pretty wise fellow, will soon believe nothing we tell him and will become so suspicious that he will resist anything new and refuse to pay any attention to any of our story, true or otherwise. 

Medicine, which as far as its practice is concerned must be regarded as an art, was at least delivered from false theories, pedantic jargon, murderous routine, servile submission to the authority of men and the doctrine of faculties. It now teaches men to believe nothing but experience. It has increased its methods and learnt better how to combine and employ... 

Ignorance is preferable to error he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong. 

James E. Lockley, M.D. wrote one of the more informative articles ever written about mineral fibers. He traces the medical history of talc back to 1896 when it was first reported to give respiratory problems similar to the ones attributed to amphi-boles. Talc is believed to cause ovarian cancers in some women who have used it on sanitary napkins. Why does no one seem to care Should we care I don t know, but I am always concerned about our complete lack of consistency in the way we present information to the public. Wolf has been cried so many times that the public at large is beginning to believe nothing, but to fear almost everything. 

The blessed work of helping the world forward, happily does not wait to be done by perfect men and I should imagine that neither Luther nor John Bunyan, for example, would have satisfied the modern demand for an ideal hero, who believes nothing but what is true, feels nothing but what is exalted, and does nothing but what is graceful. 

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. 

Once a decision to use QRA has been made, you must decide whether frequency and/or consequence information is required (Steps 6 and 7). In some cases you may simply need frequency information to make your decision. For example, suppose you wish to evaluate the adequacy of operating procedures and safety systems associated with a chemical reactor. The main hazard of concern is that the reactor could experience a violent runaway exothermic reaction. You believe that you know enough about the severe consequences of a runaway and nothing more will be gained by quantifying the consequences of potential run-... 

Beginning students are sometimes led to believe that writing a chemical equation is a simple, mechanical process. Nothing could be further from the truth. One point that seems obvious is often overlooked. You cannot write an equation unless you know what happens in the reaction that it represents. All the reactants and all the products must be identified. Moreover, you must know their formulas and physical states. 

Analytical projects must often be initialized when little or nothing is known about the system to be invesigated. Thus data are generated under conditions believed to be appropriate, and after some numbers have accumulated, a review is undertaken. 

In the condensed state, unfortunately, practically nothing is known about the consequences of the Auger effect, although there is reason to believe that charge neutralization by electron transfer between neighboring... 

John Needham (1713-1781). Similar experiments carried out by an English scientist, John Needham, gave conflicting results. Life developed in Needham s heated closed vessels as well as in the open unheated ones. He therefore believed in spontaneous generation. We shall see later that this result was due to insufficient heating which failed to kill heat-resistant forms of bacteria called spores. But nothing was known about spores at that time. 

Q. Now this December meeting. You testified that you studied the minutes recently and that you found nothing that would lead you to believe that anything criminal was contemplated isn t that right ... 

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