Favorite Quotes

[coldcreation]

"A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations."

 

"A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature."

~Jules Henri Poincaré

 

 

 

CC

[JMJones0424]

It’s no fun to appreciate to the full the truth of the materialist proposition that I don’t have a body, I am a body.

Christopher Hitchens

[coldcreation]

“The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.”

~Daniel Dennett

[Turtle]

nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. ~ jonathan swift

[phillip1882]

ah, alcohol; the cause of, and solution to, all life's problems. -homer simpson.

 

well you tried hard and you failed miserably; the lesson is: never try. -homer simpson.

[Turtle]

:cocktail: candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker. ~ ogden nash

[coldcreation]

But a dandy can never be a vulgar man. :P

~Charles Baudelaire

[Turtle]

quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that i may wet my mind and say something clever. ~ aristophanes

[coldcreation]

But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.

~Mark Rylance

 

 

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

 

Clever tyrants are never punished.

~Voltaire

[Turtle]

a bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. ~ francis bacon

(nothing says breakfast like bacon. ~ rtg)

[coldcreation]

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

~Konrad Lorenz

 

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

~Francis Bacon

 

I never eat any breakfast.

~Lizzie Andrew Borden

 

I'm not a breakfast eater.

~Sean Penn

 

 

 

Sometimes nothing is better than something (for breakfast).

 

CC

[Turtle]

a strong body makes the mind strong. as to the species of exercises, i advise the gun. let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks. ~ tommy jefferson :Guns:

[Turtle]

we have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours. ~ john stuart mill

[JMJones0424]

Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the oppressor.

 

Ginetta Sagan

[modest]

Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.

 

~Christopher Hitchens 1949-2011 :(

[Turtle]

everyone without passions has within them no principle of action, nor motive to act. ~ claud adrian helvétius

[JMJones0424]

I don't believe just 'cause ideas are tenacious it means that they're worthy.

 

by Tim Minchin