Scientifick Quotes & Sayings

The feeling of rank is one of the most basic human instincts. To gossip about someone is to elevate yourself above him or her. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A silent Library is a sad Library. A Library without patrons on whom to pile books and tales and knowing and magazines full of up-to-the-minute politickal fashions and atlases and plays in pentameter! A Library should be full of exclamations! Shouts of delight and horror as the wonders of the world are discovered or the lies of the heavens are uncovered or the wild adventures of devil-knows-who sent romping out of the pages. A Library should be full of now-just-a-minutes and that-can't-be-rights and scientifick folk running skelter to prove somebody wrong. It should positively vibrate with laughing at comedies and sobbing at tragedies, it should echo with gasps as decent ladies glimpse indecent things and indecent ladies stumble upon secret and scandalous decencies! A Library should not shush; it should roar! — Catherynne M Valente

This particular hyena was short and had blue hair that stuck out straight up from her head. She saw me looking.
"Like my do? I'll tell you who did it. Of course, it won't look as good on you as it does on me." She winked.
"I'm sure. So how much does it cost to get a gas burner installed on your head? — Ilona Andrews

I just want to listen and build relationships with as many of my colleagues as possible. — Erik Paulsen

Remember tonight ... for it is the beginning of always — Dante Alighieri

Fairyland is a very Scientifick place. We subscribe to all the best journals. — Catherynne M Valente

Mindfulness of the body leads to nirvana. — Gautama Buddha

I am a student of whoever I can learn from. I don't see myself in position like I'm above anybody else and I can never learn, or no one can ever teach me anything. You learn a lot from guys who are just starting off sometimes. — Rashad Evans

When Bauhaus designers adopted Sullivan's "form follows function," what they meant was,
form should follow function. And if function is hard enough, form is forced to follow it,
because there is no effort to spare for error.
Wild animals are beautiful because they have hard lives. — Paul Graham

In a letter, Martin Luther, one of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation, wrote to Hans von Rechenberg in 1522 about the possibility that people could turn to God after death, asking: Who would doubt God's ability to do that? — Rob Bell