"Without science, there would be no such hope."

--

Kay Redfield Jamison

#Would Be Quotes

“Nature stopped being natural decades ago.”
“Can the existence of a mathematical entity be proved without defining it ?”
“It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.”

Source : Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”
“If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.”
“My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.”
“The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges.”
“I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.”
“Occasional observers of horror movies have a nasty habit of asking why it is that there is always some poor misguided soul who opens the door to the cellar or to the attic or to the crypt when it's quite clear that no sane person would even consider it.”

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