Amy Burvall 's List: TOK essayprep

• A good mathematician may know the truth about numbers, and a good engineer may know how to make physical forces serve his purposes. But the engineer and the mathematician are human beings first—so for them, as well as for me, what matters most is not one’s knowledge and skill, but one’s relations with o

  ther people
• I believe we have no certain knowledge of what is right and wrong and even if we
• Since we can never be sure, we have to try to be charitable and open to persuasion that we may, after all, have been in the wrong, and at the same time we have to be resolute and energetic in what we do in order to be effective
• So one has to fight oneself all the time, and this means that suffering is not only inevitable, but is an indispensable part of a lifelong education
• love is what gives life its meaning and purpose, and that suffering is profitable when it is met in the course of following love’s lead
• “The universe is too great a mystery for there to be only one single approach to it.

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• my belief that the power of creativity and intellige
• nce can make the world a better place.
• believe that computers are the most incredible tool we can use to feed our curiosity and inventiveness — to help us solve problems that even the smartest people couldn’t solve on their own.
• what makes me “tap-dance to work” is when we show people something new, like a computer that can recognize your handwriting or your speech, or one that can store a lifetime’s worth of photos
• good fortune brings with it a responsibility to give back to the world.
• And I believe that through our natural inventiveness, creativity and willingness to solve tough problems, we’re going to make some amazing achievements in all these areas in my lifetime.

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