"Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement."

-- B. F. Skinner

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“I realized that influence was inextricably linked to impactâ€”the more influence you had, the more impact you could create.Â .Â .Â . The ability to make things go viral felt like the closest that we could get to having a human superpower.”

Source : "The Virologist" by Andrew Marantz, www.newyorker.com. January 5, 2015.
“It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking.”
“In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.”
“Ask anyone what that means, what it means to see a miracle, and they will say that it's something impossible, but they mean that a miracle is something formerly believed to be impossible that turns out not to be, not to be impossible, in other words, but possible after all. If this were really true, then miracles would be the most ordinary things in the world, the most uninspiring things in the world, and what can one expect from people who have never been anything but ordinary and uninspired.”
“I'm really shy with my acting when it's off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot.”

Source : "Interview With The Vampires: The Cast Of The Forsaken". Interview With Steve Head, www.ign.com. May 4, 2001.
“The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.”
“I have written the little work that follows . . . in the role of one who strives to raise his mind to the contemplation of God and one who seeks to understand what he believes.”
“There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.”

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