"We may not have a future, but you can't deny we have a past."

“Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world.”

Source : Hugh Blair (1827). “Sermons ... To which is prefixed, a short account of the life and character of the author, by James Finlayson ... A new edition, etc. With a portrait”, p.17

“The red-carpet spotlight is a little bit more nerve-racking when you haven't been doing it all the time.”

“Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.”

“Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.”

“Dad had a music store, and he'd often bring home comedy albums that I would listen to. I started listening to Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby, and developing taste. They really influenced my style of comedy.”

“You know, it's hard to say this, but I suspect that Obama is afraid either of blackmail potential or even worse. And he has referred to the killing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in this main saying, "don't you remember what happened to Dr. King?"”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

“The narrow slit through which the scientist, if he wants to be successful, must view nature constructs, if this goes on for a long time, his entire character; and, more often than not, he ends up becoming what the German language so appropriately calls a Fachidiot (professional idiot).”

“Ideas are intelligent active things which present themselves to your consciousness for expression. You can only be receptive and express them as they will be expressed.”