"What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field."

-- Galileo Galilei

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“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.”
“Everything is overflowing with Gods.”
“I have a big ego, but I don't buy into it. I can't live off the ego. It's an honor that I get to be that guy onstage. It's not something I earned.”
“Why does the left hate free speech? Because they don't know how to talk about the substantive merits when they are challenged. Having submerged themselves in disciplining each other by denouncing any heretics in their midst, they find themselves overwhelmed and outnumbered in America, where there is vibrant debate about all sorts of things they don't know how to begin to talk about. They resort to stomping their feet and shouting "shut up"... when they aren't prissily imploring everyone to be "civil."”

Source : "Why does the left hate free speech?" by Ann Althouse, althouse.blogspot.ru. February 3, 2011.
“Watercolour could have been used more by the modernists. It is so direct, and when the white paper convention is accepted, so powerful, even brutal, that it would seem an ideal medium.”

Source : David P. Silcox, David Milne (1996). “Painting Place: The Life and Work of David B. Milne”, p.284, University of Toronto Press
“I was kind of a little redneck growing up, living on a farm, and running around in the country. I developed hillbilly tendencies, but I wanted to listen to something a little more meaningful than "Redneck Woman" or whatever.”
“When I was younger, I wanted to guard myself against criticism, so I did so much more work than was needed. Now, though, it's sometimes better to understand something intuitively than have to dig your way into a character.”
“No idea, no matter how good, will work if it doesn't get used.”

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