Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Quotes

We can only learn
to love by loving
- Iris Murdoch

Shoot for the moon. Even if you
miss, you'll land among the stars.
- Les Brown

"Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like
burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal."
- E. O. Wilson

"If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical
processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far
in our understanding of the physical world. One might
as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely
by the use of the mathematics of probability."
- Vannevar Bush

"I think that one possible definition of our modern
culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of
our intellectuals can't read any poetry."
- Randall Jarrell

Illiud Latine dici non potest
- You can't say that in Latin

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