"Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity."

-- Horace

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“Sometimes doing a movie for a short period of time is better than committing eight months to a television show.”
“How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which Prometheus brought writing to man from the gods. But then I remind myself that...we should not be too fastidious about where great ideas come from. Ultimately, they all come from a wrinkled organ that at its healthiest has the color and consistency of toothpaste, and in the end only withers and dies.”
“A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot.”
“Wherever you go in life, you will feel somewhere over your shoulder a pink, castellated shimmering presence, the domes and riggings and crooked pinacles of the Serenissima”

Source : 1960 Venice.
“Logic is justly considered the basis of all other sciences, even if only for the reason that in every argument we employ concepts taken from the field of logic, and that ever correct inference proceeds in accordance with its laws.”

Source : "Introduction to Logic: and to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences". Book by Alfred Tarski, transl. by Olaf Helmer, pp. 108-110, 1941/2013.
“Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time.”

Source : "LETTER FROM THE AMERICAS; Che Today? More Easy Rider Than Revolutionary" by Larry Rohter, www.nytimes.com. May 26, 2004.
“The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else.”

Source : Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton
“My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game. I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results. How can it be that writing down a few simple and elegant formulae, like short poems governed by strict rules such as those of the sonnet or the waka, can predict universal regularities of Nature?”

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