Fornello Ad Quotes & Sayings

Why do we separate the scientific, which is just a way of searching for the truth, from what we hold sacred, which are those truths that inspire love and awe? Science is nothing more than a neverending search for the truth. What could be more profoundly sacred than that? I'm sure most of what we all hold dearest and cherish most, believing at this very moment, will be revealed at some future time to be merely a product of our age and our history and our understanding of reality. So here's this process, this way, this mechanism for finding bits of reality. No single bit is sacred. But the search is. — Ann Druyan

He did his best to conceal this antipathy, because the one thing he hated, more than constituted authority itself, was to hear constituted authority questioned by anyone but himself. This is perhaps an endemic trait in all who love power, and my father had an absolute passion for power, although he was never in a position to wield it on a notable scale. — Anthony Powell

The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest. — Mahatma Gandhi

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. — Colin Wilson

Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon ... is not the dragon the hero of his own story? — Erin Morgenstern

Gabrielle opened the fridge, which was held shut with a strip of gaff tape, and pulled out sliced white bread, margarine and plastic cheese. It was the only time Lenny had seen ants running out of a fridge. — Caroline Shaw