Quotes

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. George Sheehan

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in...

The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification...

Turning and turning in the widening gyre, The falcone cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world… W. B. Yeats, the second coming

Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart. Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-03-04

I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half. Jay Gould

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past...

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. Carl Sagan, “Contact”