Quote time
I love to collect quotes. Such a high ratio of thought-provocation per word! I'd even bet that there is a the seed for a novel in most well-honed quotes. I collect these from many sources, though more than a few of the following were presented to me by The Quotations Page, which I use as my homepage. Some of these quotes have made the rounds (the oldies-but-goodies), though I'd bet that you'll find more than a few that you've never seen before. Enjoy. In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
Johann von Neumann (1903 - 1957)
Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.Robert Byrne
It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Jumpers (1972) act 1
The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules for ourselves as we go along.Douglas Adams , Last Chance to See
“It is not acceptable to have a religion where the alternative to faith is punishment — that’s how you train dogs, not develop people.”Deng Ming-Dao
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.Oscar Wilde
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.George Wald (1906 - )
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.H. H. Williams