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“The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.”
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“Every time a bit of information is erased, we know it doesn't disappear. It goes out into the environment. It may be horribly scrambled and confused, but it never really gets lost. It's just converted into a different form.”
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“Judging from the ugly and repugnant things that are sometimes in vogue, it would seem as though fashion were desirous of exhibiting its power by getting us to adopt the most atrocious things for its sake alone.”
Source : Georg Simmel (2008). “Englischsprachige Veröffentlichungen: 1893 - 1910”
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“I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people.”
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“Astronomy may be revolutionized more than any other field of science by observations from above the atmosphere. Study of the planets, the Sun, the stars, and the rarified matter in space should all be profoundly influenced by measurements from balloons, rockets, probes and satellites. ... In a new adventure of discovery no one can foretell what will be found, and it is probably safe to predict that the most important new discovery that will be made with flying telescopes will be quite unexpected and unforeseen. (1961)”
Source : Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 17, No. 5, p. 191, 194, May 1961.
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“I did, I'd say, at least about 80 percent of the rest of the driving, and I had the time of my life.”
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“As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.”
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“Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.”
