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We must avoid here two complementary errors: on the one hand that the world has a unique, intrinsic, pre-existing structure awaiting our grasp; and on the other hand that the world is in utter chaos. The first error is that of the student who marvelled at how the astronomers could find out the true names of distant constellations. The second error is that of the Lewis Carroll's Walrus who grouped shoes with ships and sealing wax, and cabbages with kings...: R. Abel, Man is the Measure, New York: Free Press, 1976
Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky. The glory of science is not in a truth more absolute than the truth of Bach or Tolstoy, but in the act of creation itself. The scientist's discoveries impose his own order on chaos, as the composer or painter imposes his; an order that always refers to limited aspects of reality, and is based on the observer's frame of reference, which differs from period to period as a Rembrant nude differs from a nude by Manet.: Arthur Koestler (1905 - 1983), The Act of Creation, London, 1970, p. 253
My empty waterdish mocks me.: Bob the Dog
Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.: Andrew Brown
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.: Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken.: Egyptian Inscription Recorded at the Time of the Invention of Writing
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.: Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA
In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.: Gloria Steinem (1934 - )
The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices -- to be found in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own -- for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.: Rod Serling (1924 - 1975)

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