All Quotes
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But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates.Plato, in Symposium
...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.Robert Louis Stevenson
There is no "royal road" to geometry.Euclid, to king Ptolemy I
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.Virginia Woolf
Equation (1.2-9) is a second order, nonlinear, vector, differential equation which has defied solution in its present form. It is here therefore we depart from the realities of nature to make some simplifying assumptions...Bate, Mueller & White, 1971, "Fundamentals of Astrodynamics"
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.William Jennings Bryan
All dimensions are critical dimensions, otherwise why are they there?Russ Zandbergen
The universe is made of stories, not atoms.Muriel Rukeyser
I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.Douglas Adams
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.Thomas Paine