There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite form in a molecule. Attempts to place different disciplines in different camps are revealed as artificial in the face of the unity of knowledge. All literate men are sustained by the philosopher, the historian, the political analyst, the economist, the scientist, the poet, the artisan and the musician. -Glenn T. Seaborg-
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If I agreed with you we’d both be wrong.
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If you are dead, you don’t know you are dead. So it’s only bad for the people around you. Same with stupidity. -found on Facebook-
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Don’t eat on an empty stomach, it messes up your drinking. -Darrel Ewbank-
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The four basic food groups: meat, cheese, salt, and pepper. -Darrel Ewbank-
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From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. -Chief Joseph, Nez Perce Tribe-
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Can’t you show me the common courtesy of listening when I’m talking to myself? -Gladys Thornapple, “The Born Loser”-
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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else. -Len Wein-
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I once took a solemn oath to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic. Be advised that no one has ever relieved me of my duties under this oath. -found on Facebook-
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I have very strongly this feeling … that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary. -Bryan Magee-