"For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself."

-- Wanda Koop

#Interesting Quotes #Looks Quotes #Conventions Quotes

“College is about three things: homework, fun, and sleep...but you can only choose two.”
“The experience of a cosmos existing in precarious balance on the edge of emergence from nothing and returning to nothing must be acknowledged, therefore, as lying at the center of the primary experience of the cosmos.”

Source : Eric Voegelin, Michael Franz (2000). “Order and History”, p.123, University of Missouri Press
“I don't think we've ever lived in such a dangerous time, on a range of different levels. We also live in an extremely exciting time with a multitude of opportunities for each and every one of us to engage our individual voices, to engage more effectively collectively, to tackle some of these issues that would have seemed beyond our reach just a few years ago.”
“I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All physicists, and a good many quite respectable mathematicians, are contemptuous about proof. I have heard Professor Eddington, for example, maintain that proof, as pure mathematicians understand it, is really quite uninteresting and unimportant, and that no one who is really certain that he has found something good should waste his time looking for proof.”
“Too many rules with stifle innovation.”
“Because I believe that abortion is murder, I also believe that force is justified in an attempt to stop it.”
“You could run to the farthest corners of the earth. There's no place you could go where I wouldn't love you. Nothing you could do to stop me.”
“My father said, Don't grow up to be a woman, and what he meant by that was, a housewife ... without any interests.”

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