Favorite Quotes

The instant the atmosphere is illuminated it will be filled
with an infinite number of images which are produced by the
various bodies and colours assembled in it. And the eye is
the target, a lodestone, of these images.
- Leonardo da Vinci

That which has no limitations, has no form. The limitations
of two conterminous bodies are interchangeably the surface
of each. All the surfaces of a body are not parts of that body.
-- Leonardo da Vinci

"The theories which I have expressed there,
and which appear to you to be so chimerical,
are really extremely practical — so practical
that I depend upon them for my bread and cheese."
- Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet

"Life is infinitely stranger than anything
which the mind of man could invent."
- Sherlock Holmes: The Red-Headed League

Picard: "Gilgamesh and Enkidu at Uruk."
- Star Trek the Next Generation, Episode: Darmok

"I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles."
- Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane