Like every writer, I’m drawn by unlikely juxtapositions, precisely-dated and once-only collisions between people from different worlds. – Hilary Mantel
I’ve never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists. – Hillary Clinton
There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false. – Harold Pinter
Adolescents are still children in that they can’t yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction. – Heather O’Neill
There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note. – Gustav Mahler
Soon the digital divide will not be between the haves and the have-nots. It will be between the know-hows and the non-know-hows. – Howard Rheingold
During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other. – Gabriel Lippmann
There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate. – Hans Eysenck
The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border. – Goldwin Smith
Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. – Gregory Bateson
If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar. – Harold Wilson
Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow? – Garrett Fort
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. – Hilaire Belloc
Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries. – Hans Blix
Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism. – Imre Lakatos
The difference between our decadence and the Russians’ is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic. – James Thurber
The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology. – Imre Lakatos