Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 10, 2025
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
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Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )  
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
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Martin Gardner (1914 - ), "The Mathematical Magic Show"  
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910), Anna Karenina, Chapter 1, first line  
Ah! Memory impairment: the free prize at the bottom of every vodka bottle!
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Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro and Eric Kaplan, Big Bang Theory, The Agreement Dissection, 2011  
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