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

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

-Upton Sinclair

The truth is like poetry. And everyone fucking hates your poetry

-Overheard in a Washington D.C. bar

Progress is not achieved by preachers and guardians of morality but madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.

-Stephen Fry

Truth stares every person in the face, if you have the mettle to match its gaze, not be filled with dread and speak its existence devoid of hubris life changes for the better every time.

-Christopher Hudgens

Tyranny is the deliberate removal of nuance

-Albert Maysles

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing

-Elbert Hubbard not Aristotle
or Mark Staff Brandl

That’s one of the greatest powers I have, that I have 52 people who I hire and nobody knows where they’re coming from. For instance, there are two slots over at the jail. Nobody knows if Julia Childrey [Director of Department of Justice Services] put those people there or I did. It’s good fucked up. We like it fucked up. I care about my politics.

-Steve Stenger