“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” — Galileo
Quotations
Misc
- Consecutive U.S. presidents Grant, Hayes, and Garfield were all born in Ohio and served as Civil War generals.
- Travel due south from Buffalo and you’ll reach the Pacific Ocean.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. shook hands with both John Quincy Adams and John F. Kennedy.
- This false statement is not self-referential.
- “When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.” — Cicero
In the 2004 film Shark Tale, the shark Lenny coughs up several items onto a table. Among them is a Louisiana license plate, number 007 0 981. The same plate is retrieved from sharks in both Jaws and Deep Blue Sea.
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“Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.” — Adam Smith
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“I love criticism just so long as it’s unqualified praise.” — Noël Coward
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“I always turn to the sports section first. The sports section records people’s accomplishments; the front page nothing but man’s failures.” — Earl Warren
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“Personalize your sympathies; depersonalize your antipathies.” — W.R. Inge
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“What I cannot create, I do not understand.” — On Richard Feynman’s Caltech blackboard at the time of his death in 1988
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“The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.” — E.O. Wilson
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“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.” — Marcus Aurelius
“When anger rises, think of the consequences.” — Confucius
“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.” — Benjamin Franklin
Reflection
I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now.
— Graffito in a restroom of the Ninth Circle Restaurant, New York City, noted in Robert Reisner and Lorraine Wechsler’s Encyclopedia of Graffiti, 1974