Our usual collection of quotes encountered.
Conspiracy is the default explanation of a mystery when you’re looking for meaning. Uncertainty is the default when you’re looking for truth.
[A molecule called Celastrol] does all kinds of stuff in cell assays and animal models … and you can basically find papers that will illustrate it doing anything you feel like seeing – antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, anticancer, antidiabetic, antioxidant, insecticide, you name it. It’s probably a decent floor polish, although I’m not sure I’d recommend its use as a dessert topping.
[Derek Lowe; https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/fun-protein-degradation]
I don’t think that AI is going to provide answers … any time soon – largely because the difficulty is lack of knowledge in the first place. You can’t expect the software to take a bunch of used pizza boxes and find a route to convert them into gold jewellery, and unfortunately a lot of our knowledge (when you look at it on the absolute scale) is at the used pizza box stage.
[Derek Lowe; https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/ai-and-patent-system]
Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will
[Antonio Gramsci]
Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you’re a nerd is like saying, “Hey, I notice that you’d rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you’d rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Linsey Lohan. Why is that?”
[John Green]
In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor.
[Oscar Wilde]
When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. All sensation and consciousness ends with death and therefore in death there is neither pleasure nor pain. The fear of death arises from the belief that in death, there is awareness.
[Epicurus, died 270BC]
You are not lazy, unmotivated, or stuck. After years of living your life in survival mode you are exhausted. There is a difference.
[Nakeia Homer]
The Brexit agreement was written in English so they could understand it.
[Ursula von de Leyen, EU President]
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
[Bertrand Russell]
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
[TS Elliot]
I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.
[Roald Dahl, My Uncle Oswald]
The human body is the best work of art.
[Jess C Scott]