"That's her secret, I suppose. Everything that happens to her she's proud of. She makes it special by it happening to her."

--

Source : Melvin Burgess (2014). “Junk”, p.122, Random House

Melvin Burgess

#Secret Quotes #Special Quotes #Proud Quotes

“We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.”

Source : Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.20, Penguin
“... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.”
“Doubt is a profound and effective spiritual motivation. Without doubt, no truism is transcended, no new knowledge found, no expansion of the imagination possible. Doubt is unsettling to the ego and those who are drawn to ideologies that promise the dispelling of doubt by preferring certainties never grow.”
“I'm not walking by sight- I'm, walking by faith”
“So far we still don't know whether angels are ethereal beings of light without substance or if they take a solid human form with real wings which actually enable them to fly.”
“I had many, many, many death threats. I couldn't open letters for a long time, because they all had to be opened by either the FBI or somebody. I couldn't open letters. I had to be escorted. In fact, just recently I went to a funeral, Calvin Wardlaw, who was the detective -- the policeman -- with me for two years, passed away just recently. He and I got to be bosom buddies really, but that was the hardest part. I wasn't able to enjoy -- you know.”
“Time had changed the magical to mundane”
“Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation.”

Source : Roger Penrose (1994). “Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA

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