Short Informative Quotes & Sayings

I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program. — Margaret Atwood

I am particularly fond of [Emmanuel Mendes da Costa's] Natural History of Fossils because this treatise, more than any other work written in English, records a short episode expressing one of the grand false starts in the history of natural science and nothing can be quite so informative and instructive as a juicy mistake. — Stephen Jay Gould