When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions; that is the heart of science.

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.

Evelyn Waugh

Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.

William Robertson Smith

...I lost my illusions in a black rain of bitterness - now what do you see in my eyes? How can you still love me? How can I be tender? ...

John Geddes

My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.

Bill Keller

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

Gerald Brenan

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Ralph Bunche

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Benjamin Franklin

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

Anne Ridler

On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing.

Adrian Edmondson

When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails.

Albert Einstein

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

Fernando Pessoa

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

Henrik Ibsen, Pillars of Society