Quotes

But even at this stage there is essentially the question of an influence on the very conditions which define the possible types of predictions regarding the future behavior of the system.

-Niels Bohr’s response to Einstein’s critique of Quantum Mechanics locality problem that many scientists felt was at bust obscurely opaque at best or nonsense at worst.

Some ideas are so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them

-George Orwell

I call myself a cultural Christian. I’m not a believer, but there’s a distinction between being a believing Christian and being a cultural Christian. I love hymns and Christmas carols, and I sort of feel at home in the Christian ethos

-Richard Dawkins

Art takes the trauma and allows you to compartmentalize or even transmute that pain into something else

– Neko Case

Its not a war crime, the first time…

– Nation of Canada, who inspired many Geneva convention laws

Academia values the appearance of truth over actual truth

– Aaron Brown

Every single person who confuses correlation and causation ends up dying

– Unknown

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Everyone Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Face

– Mike Tyson

I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus raised from the dead, then they proclaimed that truth for 40 years, never once denying it. Every one was beaten, tortured, stoned and put in prison. They would not have endured that if it weren’t true. Watergate embroiled 12 of the most powerful men in the world-and they couldn’t keep a lie for three weeks. You’re telling me 12 apostles could keep a lie for 40 years? Absolutely impossible.

– Charles Colson, Special Counsel to President Richard Nixon

Remember the concept of the cleanest dirty shirt. We live in a relative world so if we misbehave and others misbehave more, we don’t get punished because we have the reserve currency and are the place where people outsource savings to. As long as we remain the cleanest dirty shirt, we will not be punished. If others become cleaner than us, we will be punished, but for right now we are the cleanest dirty shirt.

-Mohamed El-Erian, Allianz chief economic advisor and president of Queens’ College, Cambridge

Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

-Aaron Levenstein

Destiny may ride with us today, but there is no reason for it to interfere with lunch

-Joseph Stalin