"I found that it was easiest to convey the information in the context of the life of the scientist or in the context of our own personal experience, and there was no idea that was too complicated that couldn't be explained clearly and directly."

-- Ann Druyan

#Ideas Quotes #Information Quotes #Complicated Quotes

“You shouldn't need 60 full minutes to create a portrait that an audience doesn't forget. You should be able to make an impression that's lasting and resonant with one scene.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I had braces; I was lucky, 'cause I had some snaggle teeth. I always try and keep my retainer on me 'cause I'm paranoid about my teeth. It was run over by a car, so half of it's missing, but it still works.”
“If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.”
“Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms”

Source : Joseph McCabe (1929). “The Story of Religious Controversy”
“I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.”
“A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.”
“As no two people see the world the same way, all trips from here to there are imaginary; all truth is a tale I am telling myself.”

Source : Brion Gysin (2015). “Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader”, p.188, Wesleyan University Press
“A purpose derived from a false premise - that a deity has ordained submission to his will - cannot merit respect. The pursuit of Enlightenment-era goals - solving our world's problems through rational discourse, rather than through religion and tradition - provides ample grounds for a purposive existence. It is not for nothing that the Enlightenment, when atheism truly began to take hold, was also known as the Age of Reason.”

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