Pseudoscientific Idea Quotes & Sayings

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. — Peter Medawar

Our host drifted away, and Vidia and I continued chatting about this and that. Swift judgments came down. The simplicity in Hemingway was "bogus" and nothing, Vidia said, like his own. Things Fall Apart was a fine book, but Achebe's refusal to write about his decades in America was disappointing. Heart of Darkness was good, but structurally a failure. I asked him about the biography by Patrick French, The World Is What It Is, which he had authorized. He stiffened. That book, which was extraordinarily well written, was also shocking in the extent to which it revealed a nasty, petty, and insecure man. "One gives away so much in trust," Vidia said. "One expects a certain discretion. It's painful, it's painful. But that's quite all right. Others will be written. The record will be corrected." He sounded like a boy being brave after gashing his thumb. The — Teju Cole

The moment I do any puppy dog acting, I think the joke is dead. It's in the truth of how I play it, and the real painful honesty that I approach my performance with. — Jason Gann

You'll make mistakes because it's impossible to know what is or isn't a mistake until it's made. — Stephenie Meyer

I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later. — Elton John

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature. — Gilbert K. Chesterton