Setagaya Tokyo Quotes & Sayings

I think the next [21st] century will be the century of complexity. We have already discovered the basic laws that govern matter and understand all the normal situations. We don't know how the laws fit together, and what happens under extreme conditions. But I expect we will find a complete unified theory sometime this century. The is no limit to the complexity that we can build using those basic laws. — Stephen Hawking

You never know how strong you are, until being strong is the only choice you have. — Kristen Proby

I am not sure what it is that finally allows people to just turn to each other and touch. There is some hidden trigger. There is a secret language people learn, so they can signal to stop talking and just move. I don't know it. — M T Anderson

I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet. — Tommy Docherty

Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint. — Abraham Lincoln

The general nature of the speech act fallacy can be stated as follows, using "good" as our example. Calling something good is characteristically praising or commending or recommending it, etc. But it is a fallacy to infer from this that the meaning of "good" is explained by saying it is used to perform the act of commendation. — John Searle

Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace. — Walter Scott