"It is possible that a scientific discovery will be made that humans will later regret because it has awful consequences. The problem is, we probably would not know in advance and, once the discovery is made, it cannot be undiscovered."

-- Paul Davies

#Regret Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Awful Quotes

“Why was everyone dying? They had all been so alive just yesterday.”

Source : Yoko Ogawa (2013). “Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales”, p.78, Picador
“I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.”
“Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.”
“For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It's amazing. And it's free. I love it. It's absolutely brilliant.”
“The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident.”
“Character cannot be counterfeited, nor can it be put on and cast off as if it were a garment to fit the whim of the moment. Day by day we become what we do. This is the supreme law and logic of life.”
“I really got consumed with the idea of how people who are deemed crazy or insane often have a firmer grasp on reality than normal people. The average person goes through life thinking it will go on forever.”

Source : Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. January 23, 2013.
“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”

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