"I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around."

-- David Eagleman

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“One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.”
“The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future,”
“Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.”

Source : Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.”

Source : John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.128
“We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among those that are best seen in half-light or in perspective.”
“Sports and music are the same thing to me. When done wrong, they are really frustrating; when done right, they can change your day.”
“All persons who bear the blessed title of parent have the personal responsibility to see that their children are growing up fully appreciative of the rights of God and their fellowmen.”
“That's the spirit, one part brave, three parts fool.”

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