"The spirit of science is not to prejudge, but to give any honest query a fair shake."

“Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but to break ground, and blossom, and pass away. Thank God for spring flowers among men, as well as among the grasses of the field.”

“The culture in which you parent, mentor, or educate boys exhorts them to be individualistic and group-oriented at once, but does not give them a tribal structure in which to accomplish both in balance. It used to be that the tribe formed a boy's character while the peer group existed primarily to test and befriend that character. Nowadays, boys' characters are often formed in the peer group. Mentors and intimate role models rarely exist to show the growing boy in any long-term and consistent way how both to serve a group and flourish as an independent self.”

Source : Michael Gurian (2006). “The Wonder of Boys”, p.71, Penguin

“We have not the time to take our time.”

“[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy.”

Source : Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.247, W. W. Norton & Company

“Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.”

“I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan,”

“I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible”

“There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.”