A full 'definition of an object must include the whole of human experience, both as a criterion of truth and a practical indicator of its connection with human wants.

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Statistics is the grammar of science.

Karl Pearson

Optimization hinders evolution.

Anon.

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

Audre Lorde

Another challenge? Getting up at 6:30 in the morning to go act. It's not fun acting that early in the morning or acting at 4 A.M in the middle of the night or in the morning when you're really tired. That's a challenge. What a luxurious problem to have.

George Eads

Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.

Michael Burgess

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Samuel Johnson

The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority.

Kurt Vonnegut

I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp memories standing out.

Audrey Niffenegger

At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun.

Nicolaus Copernicus

I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.

Albert Camus