Shmueli Quotes & Sayings

Fiction - and poetry and drama - cleanse the doors of perception. — Ursula K. Le Guin

It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back. — Dan Quayle

For instance, the scientific article may say, 'The radioactive phosphorus content of the cerebrum of the rat decreases to one- half in a period of two weeks.' Now what does that mean?
It means that phosphorus that is in the brain of a rat - and also in mine, and yours - is not the same phosphorus as it was two weeks ago. It means the atoms that are in the brain are being replaced: the ones that were there before have gone away.
So what is this mind of ours: what are these atoms with consciousness? Last week's potatoes! They now can remember what was going on in my mind a year ago - a mind which has long ago been replaced. To note that the thing I call my individuality is only a pattern or dance, that is what it means when one discovers how long it takes for the atoms of the brain to be replaced by other atoms. The atoms come into my brain, dance a dance, and then go out - there are always new atoms, but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday. — Richard Feynman

You introduced me to Danger and Will Robinson, but you neglected to acquaint me with the other two."
"Fine,But you can't make fun of their names. They're very sensitive."
"I would never."
I pointed in the general vicinity of my left ovary, "This is Beam Me Up." Then to my right. "And this is Scotty. — Darynda Jones

Anything that comes your way by force was not meant for you. Everything that locates you on it's own was yours and will be yours forever. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Do not say that! How few are the Romans and how numerous are we ! 'An army's strength lies not in numbers of men but in Allah's help, and its weakness lies in being forsaken by Allah — Khalid Ibn Al-Walid