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

Never mistake motion for action.

-Ernest Hemingway

To regard anyone except yourself as responsible for your judgement is to be a slave, not a free man, It is from this fact that the liberal arts acquire their name

-Mortimer Adler

[The written word] will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls.

-Socrates

Love is like a fart. If you have to force it, it is probably shit.

-Somee

Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.

-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Meaningful work & relationships thru radical truthfulness & transparency.

-Ray Dalio

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

-Richard Feynman

The price of clarity is the risk of insult

-Unknown

I wouldn’t trust a word that came out of his mouth even if his tongue was notarized.

-Private author about Martin Sigillito