random quip

Still thou are blest, compared wi’ me! / The present only toucheth thee: / But och! I backward cast my e’e, / On prospects drear! / An’ forward, tho’ I canna see, / I guess an’ fear! -Robert Burns, To A Mouse-

random quip

I think it’s tragic that scientific advances have caused many people to imagine they know it all, and that God is irrelevant or nonexistent. The fact is that everything we learn reveals more things that we do not understand. -Donald Knuth-