Shielbert Sordward Quotes & Sayings

The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our hypotheses ought to foretell phenomena which have not yet been observed; ... because if the rule prevails, it includes all cases; and will determine them all, if we can only calculate its real consequences. Hence it will predict the results of new combinations, as well as explain the appearances which have occurred in old ones. And that it does this with certainty and correctness, is one mode in which the hypothesis is to be verified as right and useful. — William Whewell

Excuse us for the news,
You might not be amused;
But did you know White comes from Black?
No need to be confused. — Chuck D

we don't get to choose what trials we will face. We can only choose how we will face them. — Andrew Hunter

Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new. — Epictetus

People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton

[H]is mouth pursed, but pursed in American, more generous than English pursing, ready for broader vowels and less mincing sounds. His body was long and lean and trim; he had American hips, ready for a neat belt and the faraway ghost of a gunbelt. — A.S. Byatt

Last Exit to Brooklyn should explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years. — Allen Ginsberg

Have you read your Bible or has the Bible read you? — Matt Chandler