Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.

Robert Redford

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

H. G. Wells

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.

Alexander Graham Bell

Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.

Cassandra Clare

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

Alexander Smith

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

Lord Chesterfield

Sometimes you have to steer away from the crowd in order to be a better person. It's not always easy, that's for sure. But it's right. And sometimes doing the right thing feels good, even if it does end up in a trip to the principal's office.

Simone Elkeles

The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.

Victor Hugo

It must be murder to be an aging beauty, a former Tadzio, to see your future as an ignored spectator rushing up to meet you like the hard pavement. What a small sip of gall to be able to time with each passing year the ever-shorter interval in which someone's eyes focus upon you. And then shift away.

David Rakoff

When an evil masochist dies, does he go to hell, or would heaven be a better punishment?

Steven Wright

Oh that my Pow'r to Saving were confin

John Dryden, Absalom and Achitop

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

Source Unknown