Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
-Gore Vidal
Pain is the sudden rush of new information filling the gap that a moment ago was lack of knowledge.
-Jerry Seinfeld
Sometimes Science is a lot more Art than Science. A Lot of people don’t get that.
-Rick Sanchez C-137
You never want a serious crisis to go to waste… an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.
-Rahm Emanuel
The most important men in town would come to fawn on me! They would ask me to advise them, ….Posing problems that would cross a rabbi’s eyes! And it won’t make one bit of difference if i answer right or wrong. When you’re rich, they think you really know!
– Sheldon Harnick
Zugzwang
is a situation found in chess and other games wherein one player is put at a disadvantage because they must make a move when they would prefer to pass and not move. The fact that the player is compelled to move means that their position will become significantly weaker.
History is the science of what never happens twice.
-Paul Valéry
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
-Paul Valéry
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts
-Richard Feynman
Liberty consists in the division of power. Absolutism, in concentration of power.
-Lord Acton