Chaisson Quotes & Sayings

Windows are the eyes of the soulless — Thomas Ligotti

Darky ate slowly, enjoying every morsel, his mouth salivating so wildly that he worried at the loud sloshing sound he made. But it was lost in all the other wet noises of the night. — Richard Flanagan

My own health legacy of New Guinea has been a year of malaria and a year of dysentery. — Jared Diamond

Apparently, myths become truths if upheld long enough. — Eric Chaisson

When sadness comes, accept it. Listen to its song. It has something to give to you. It has a gift which no happiness can give to you, only sadness can give it. — Rajneesh

The ache became longing, longing became nostalgia, nostalgia became fondness, and after a while he could see the funny side of it. A long while. — Charlaine Harris

The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yielding unique forms and novel structures. — Eric Chaisson

Humility is the nearly impossible task of being more concerned with our own sins that we are with the sins of others. — Trevor Hammack

Though we might like to think so, humankind is not at any special, unique or privileged location in the gargantuan, perhaps infinite, Universe. — Eric Chaisson

I don't think value to the customer is achieved at the expense of employees' welfare. — Brad Stone

Let's first ask, what is life? And immediately we are stumped. — Eric Chaisson

The blast signatures of a detonated supernova and that of a nuclear bomb are identical. — Eric Chaisson

If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty. — David Korten

At Rome there were nothing even vaguely resembling modern political parties - although given the stifling impact of these, this may well have made it more rather than less democratic than many countries today - and each candidate for office competed as an individual. Only rarely did they advocate specific policies, although commenting on issues of current importance was more common. In the main voters looked more for a capable individual who once elected could do whatever the State required. — Adrian Goldsworthy

Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism ... — Eric Chaisson

The pulsations of the arteries along my fingers pressing across hers, told her what was passing within me:
she look'd down - a silence of some moments followed. — Laurence Sterne

You deserve more than a secondhand I love you. — Colleen Hoover

Science is agnostic when it comes to God - not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly - just agnostic. — Eric Chaisson

We are not obliged to like everyone, only to love and forgive everyone, sometimes from a distance. — Taite Adams

At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns throughout. Such is our niche in the Universe. — Eric Chaisson

Nothing in Nature is black or white, few solutions are clean and clear; rather, reality, and especially our models of it, possess shades of gray throughout. — Eric Chaisson

Researchers argue that it's of utmost importance to unravel the nature of black holes, lest we someday begin to worship them. Sounds ridiculous, but whole segments of humankind have often revered the unknowable, venerating that which cannot be tested experimentally. Come to think of it, many still do in twenty-first-century society. — Eric Chaisson

The epitome of culture is the search for truth, or at least a reasonable approximation of reality, most notably the need to know ourselves and the world around us. — Eric Chaisson

Given enough time, even evolution evolves. — Eric Chaisson

Constitutional provisions are not barriers to government misconduct. At best, they can be speed bumps. — Arnold Kling

Evolution, energy, and ethics are the core elements that will guide us along the challenging path toward the Life Era: the first - evolution - because a good understanding of our universal roots and of our place in the cosmic scheme of things will help us create a feasible future course; the second - energy - because our fate will bear strongly on the ways that humankind learns to use energy efficiently and safely; and the third - ethics - because global citizenship and a planetary society are crucial factors in the survival of our species. — Eric Chaisson

The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger. — Aeschylus

Not that chance dominated events in the early Solar System, for scientific determinism was also functioning. But chance is an essential factor in all evolutionary events, and the birth and development of our planetary system were not exceptions. — Eric Chaisson