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“No longer was light analogous to the discharge of a blunderbuss, but rather to the pulsating flight of birds.”
Source : Banesh Hoffmann (1959). “The Strange Story of the Quantum: An Account for the General Reader of the Growth of the Ideas Underlying Our Present Atomic Knowledge”, p.7, Courier Corporation
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“The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.”
Source : Edward H. Levi (2008). “Point of View: Talks on Education”, p.7, University of Chicago Press
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“To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplements and cannot be substitutes. Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders and brains, not pudding, in your head.”
Source : "The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism". Lecture, August 04, 1921.
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“I really miss the rehearsal process of theater.”
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“I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.”
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“Ðe [Kurt Vonnegut] felt that life was largely a crap shoot and that we simply need to muddle on as best we can, being as kind and loving to one another as possible, right now. It's a pretty good philosophy, no matter what one's religious beliefs or lack of them.”
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“I can do things at 45, not because I can do a bunch of pull-ups, it's because I do Yoga!”
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“What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.”
