Gerhard Amanshauser Quotes

“To her amazement, she realized that the way of life of these people was nothing more than an indeterminate fiction, casually knotted together at particular points that were used again and again. With four or five remarks, and a couple of facial expressions, she had mastered it with no problem at all.”

“(She) could have read for hours, except that recently she had discovered holes and crevices between the words which she immediately had to fill with her own ideas until she was fed up with patching up the makeshift constructs.”

“I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.”

“The problem of chemotherapy of bacterial infections could be solved neither by the experimental medical research worker nor by the chemist alone, but only by the two together working in very close cooperation over many years.”

“Chance determines our lives in important ways.”

“There is nothing wrong with good accounting, except that it does not necessarily lead to good science.”

“We've lost these qualities, these abilities to do something by hand. Some illustrators have it still, but it's just not art. We have photography. We have cameras and computers that do it better and faster.”

“Without form, communication stops... without form, you have everybody burbling on to themselves, whenever and however, things that no one else can understand and - rightly - no one else is interested in.”

“A comprehended God is no God at all.”

“The search to know has always been characterized by the need to doubt, the need to be critical, including the need to be self-critical.”