Clamouring Def Quotes & Sayings

While the Baroque rules of Chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe, they almost certainly play Go. — Emanuel Lasker

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer. — William Blackstone

Perhaps his taciturnity hid a contempt for the human race which had abandoned the great dreams of his youth and now wallowed in sluggish ease; or perhaps these thirty years of revolution had taught him that men are unfit for liberty, and he thought that he had spent his life in the pursuit of that which was not worth the finding. Or maybe he was tired out and waited only with indifference for the release of death. — W. Somerset Maugham

But the chain of circumstances linked up, imprisoning her, the victim of an illness that has no remedy because it has no reason. — Marcel Proust

Genius is knowing to stay silent as others demonstrate their ignorance. — Eric Lau

If we don't play God, who will? — James D. Watson