"Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath."

-- Robert Lanza

#Islands Quotes #Flying Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.”
“In â€˜life,â€™ I donâ€™t want to be reduced to my work. In â€˜work,â€™ I donâ€™t want to be reduced to my life.”
“Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.”
“We reduce the deity to vulgar fractions. We place our own little ambitions and label them ?divine messages?. With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity.”

Source : Paul Laurence Dunbar (2009). “The Uncalled (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.113, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Lazy Line Painter Jane - it was an insane way to make a record! It was just in a church hall, no separate rooms for instruments, and a crappy digital desk, and I think it's fantastic. I think it's one of the best records we ever made. But if you actually said that to a professional recording engineer or producer they'd laugh at you.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“There have been more than 30,000 oil wells drilled in the Gulf of Mexico in the last 50 years. This is the first time something like this has ever happened [BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill], and we need to get to the bottom of it, find out what happened, make sure it doesn't happen again. But I think it is very reasonable to continue to drill.”

Source : "New sensors deployed to gauge oil spill", www.cnn.com. June 13, 2010.
“I really love him [Jack Gleeson as Joffrey in Game of Thrones] - I love watching that character. It's quite phenomenal how people love to hate that character.”
“By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West”

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