Wherever you have a goat and you have a piece of wood, all I want to say is the goat better watch out because it’s probably going to end up being a bagpipe.

-Hans Zimmer

Bagpipe | Goat | Instrument | Manufacture | Music | Nations

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

When there is no news, we will give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.

-David Brinkley

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

-Paul Valéry

A man may take to drink because he feels himself a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

-George Orwell

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

-Lord Acton

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

-Lord Acton

If you are going to permit Cesar Augustus you have to be ready for Caligula.

-Max Brooks