"Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons."

-- Thomas B. Macaulay

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“Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who execute them are not.”
“Most customers, by the time the musicians reach the second set, are to some extent inebriated. They don't care what you play anyway.”
“Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.”
“Meteorologists have the right perspective. They ground themselves in the current conditions (todayâ€™s highs/lows). They briefly acknowledge significant events of the past (record temps). And they keep an eye on the future (five-day forecast). Honor your past accomplishments, live in the present moment, and look to the future.”
“Life cannot have had a random beginning. ... The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all in a random trial is only one part in 10 to the 40,000 power, an outrageously small probability that could not be faced even if the whole universe consisted of organic soup.”

Source : "Evolution from Space". Book by Chandra Wickramasinghe and Fred Hoyle, 1981.
“Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.”
“Deep and elegant explanations relate to natural or social phenomena and the observer often has no place in them.”

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