Highly Retweeted Quotes & Sayings

To be acceptable, it seems, a project must often be billed as a pure replica of a successful venture in an advanced country. — Albert O. Hirschman

Believing in what you don't know is as true as believing in what you know as long as your life is just an illusion. — Sorin Cerin

First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin — Leonard Cohen

Concerning the dead nothing but good shall be spoken.
[Lat., De mortuis nil nisi bonum.] — Plutarch

What he found was the geometry of the universe. Looking at the bubbles made by the Wego's propellers, he recalled his boarding school math teachers, who had taught him to measure a sphere's volume in terms of pi. He also remembered that pi was an irrational number, a decimal that never ended. He asked himself how nature could ever make bubbles in such circumstances. Did nature approximate? The rules his teachers had taught him must be mistaken. Spheres ought to be understood in terms of the forces that made them. At the age of twenty-one, Bucky determined that the universe had no objects. Geometry described forces. It was an insight bound to shape Bucky's entire worldview - informing every future invention - but — Jonathan Keats