Lorentzian Quotes & Sayings

What is a blade but a conduit of death?
What is a life but a conduit of death? — Robert Jackson Bennett

The 'Big Green Debate' has entered a very interesting stage. Once there was endless controversy; now there is near unanimity. Once there was universal political indifference; now the bandwagon is abrim with politicians in catch-up mode. Once the media were semi-detached: now they're really getting stuck in. And they need to be! Many people are confused and disempowered, and the role of the media in getting then informed and engaged is critical — Jonathon Porritt

A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness - not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and 70s referred to themselves as hackers. Around 1980, journalists who discovered the hacker community mistakenly took the term to mean "security breaker." — Richard Stallman

The assumption that the gospel can be reduced to a note card is already off on the wrong track. — Scot McKnight

How will you know if you found me at last 'cause I'll be the one with my heart in my lap. — Neko Case

Perfection itself is imperfection — Vladimir Horowitz

A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any tempo, with or without rhythmic nuances, and it will still be great music. That's how music should be written, so that no-one, no matter how philistine, can ruin it. — Dmitri Shostakovich

As we discussed in Chapter 7, we physicists still haven't found a mathematical structure that can describe all aspects of reality, including gravity, but so far, there's no indication that string theory or any of the other most actively pursued candidates for such a description are any less mathematical than quantum field theory. — Max Tegmark

The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men. — Ken Follett

When doubts filled my mind, your comfort gave me renewed hope and cheer. - Psalm 94:19 — Gary Chapman

We put our faith in love. — Lauren Kate