Jeremiah P. Ostriker famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.
A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.
I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without
The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.
I liked his voice, rich and unself-conscious even when he forgot words and hummed to fill in the gap. What I didn't understand, I imagined, and thus it became a love song.
The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.
Knowledge will not always take the place of simple observation.
Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning

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