Girondo Quotes & Sayings

The scientist has to take 95 per cent of his subject on trust. He has to because he can't possibly do all the experiments, therefore he has to take on trust the experiments all his colleagues and predecessors have done. Whereas a mathematician doesn't have to take anything on trust. Any theorem that's proved, he doesn't believe it, really, until he goes through the proof himself, and therefore he knows his whole subject from scratch. He's absolutely 100 per cent certain of it. And that gives him an extraordinary conviction of certainty, and an arrogance that scientists don't have. — Christopher Zeeman

Well I'm not convinced that expanding uranium mining is in the best interests of the country and the best interests of its environment. — Peter Garrett

The work of art itself is ... a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched. — Susan Sontag

Historical figures lose their center when they become anxious over the outcome of their actions. — Huston Smith

We are stone enemies when the bell rings — Muhammad Ali

Each time I discovered a potential link between one character's story and another's, several more connections would reveal themselves, like a beautiful, complex web spinning itself. — Richard Scarsbrook

we have the Word without the Spirit, we tend to "dry up"; if we have the Spirit without the Word, we tend to "blow up"; if we have both Spirit and Word, we tend to "grow up" and "fire up." But when each is properly joined in common union, there is explosive power to be had. — R.T. Kendall

All men have a little badness in them,' she whispered.
Milo looked at her. 'Sometimes, honey ... a woman can be just as evil as a man. — Kathy Hepinstall

A book should be made like a watch and sold like a sausage. — Oliverio Girondo

Open source is a beautiful way of collaborating; but what's happening on the free Internet is more akin to the 'crowdsourcing' of journalists and other content creators by advertisers who no longer have to pay them - only the search engines that parse their articles. — Douglas Rushkoff

The House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face. They are cowards. — Christopher Monckton