Jordan Ellenberg 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.

  • A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not be able to safeguard their existence on this earth.

  • Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge. The result is a man who may be a living dictionary but nevertheless falls down miserably in all special situations and decisive moments in life.

  • Our national policies will not be revoked or modified, even for scientists. If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years.

  • There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.

  • The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

  • He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.

  • I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.

  • Finlay was the godfather of a problem that's rampant everywhere today. He called the people who made his work 'collaborators'... nowadays it's 'fabricators'... talented people who are grateful, desperate and thwarted. There's plenty of them.

  • Combating climate change requires collaboration with many levels of government.

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