"In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime."

-- Karl Popper

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“But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done.”
“We have learned nothing from the genome.”

Source : "'We Have Learned Nothing from the Genome'". Interview with Rafaela von Bredow and Johann Grolle, www.spiegel.de. July 29, 2010.
“Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.”
“Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.”
“It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.”
“With every song I have a person in mind who, in a perfect world, would perform with me. Usually I end up not getting that person, and I'm forced to settle for someone else”
“The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned”
“Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.”

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