"Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again."

-- Ernst Mach

#Men Quotes #Light Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.”
“Flowers are the fastest way to a woman's heart. Well, actually, the fastest way is through her rib cage, but flowers are a lot less messy.”

Source : FaceBook post by Eddie Murphy from Sep 13, 2013
“Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals what real intelligence is not.”
“Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.”
“Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.”
“There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity.”

Source : Galt Niederhoffer (2008). “The Romantics”, p.9, Macmillan
“Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.”
“We have to believe that a creative being lives within ourselves, whether we like it or not, and that we must get out of its way, for it will not give us peace until we do.”

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