Quotes and Conundrums


"Living in a world where the answers to questions are so good and so many is what gets me out of bed and into my boots every morning."

Sue Hubbell


"The history of the social sciences stands as a monument to the proposition that testing falsifiable predictions and acquiring scientifically significant knowledge are not synonymous."

Donald Symons


"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer."

George Santayana


"An artist never finishes his work, he can only abandon it."

Chuck Jones


"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."

Ernest Hemingway


"No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness or as good as drink."

G.K. Chesterton



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