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We know more than we can tell.
Caged birds sing of freedom, free birds fly.
Personal participation is the universal principle of knowing.
But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.
The battle is on, and nothing less than the soul of America is at stake.
The world is on a bumpy journey to a new destination and the New Normal.
Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.
No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.
Most people are under exposed to global assets, including foreign stocks, bonds and currencies.
Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.
I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell.
Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.
Investors should invest on what they know. The biggest mistake is to invest on what they don't know.
If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.
The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.
Because in the New Normal you are more worried about the return of your capital, not return on your capital.
Today's reports confirm that, unfortunately, post-crisis America is still not back to its good economic self.
Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.
Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes?
Simply put, investors should own less equities, more bonds, more global investments, more cash and more dry ammunition.
We normally think if you're going to lend someone money, you should get some reward for doing this. In Europe, it's a tax!
As a political independent, I would gladly vote for any political party dedicated to limited government and entrepreneurship.
The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence.
The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.
As a whole, investors should welcome attempts to safeguard the integrity of markets. You need very clear rules applied to markets.
Falling entry barriers and lower access costs have significantly democratised participation, whether in production or consumption.
There seems to be no limit to the exciting possibilities that come from combining technical innovations, the Internet, and social media.
If the Scottish people decide to opt for independence, it would not be a good idea for Scotland to maintain a very rigid link to the pound.
Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.
As we spend more, and as companies are pushed to invest, they say, "Hey wait a minute! There's more demand in the system. Let's invest more."
The global realignment is accelerating the migration of growth and wealth dynamics from the industrial world to the larger emerging economies.
If you happen to be the only one with negative interest rates, you also weaken your currency, which means you make your exports more competitive.
We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.
The key to happiness is not being rich; it's doing something arduous and creating something of value and then being able to reflect on the fruits of your labor.
The best and most sustainable love story for markets is one based on a healthy and dynamic real economy that creates jobs and opportunities for many more people.
The one instrument that has relative political autonomy is monetary policy. Central banks do not need to go to Congress to get approval for an interest rate hike.
After many decades of Disney movies, we have been conditioned to expect princesses to fall in love quickly with their charming princes and 'live happily ever after.'
For the next three years, we're going to see different economies work out different problems. For European economies, especially Greece, it would be through default.
Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride.
There's a general intuition around the nonprofit world these days that younger generations are less likely to join. But I have found in my research that that's quite wrong.
How long can interest rates stay negative? Think about this. Not only are you lending your money to governments, but you're paying them interest for the privilege of doing so.
The information in DNA could no more be reduced to the chemical than could the ideas in a book be reduced to the ink and paper: something beyond physics and chemistry encoded DNA.
Investors should be cautiously positioned as the global economy and markets face major uncertainties. The downgrade will be a further headwind to growth and job creation in the U.S.
Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing.
And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry.
Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public.
Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government.
A free society is regarded as one that does not engage, on principle, in attempting to control what people find meaningful, and a totalitarian society is regarded as one that does, on principle, attempt such control.
So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language.
I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they can neither be verified nor falsified by experience according to any definite rule.