St Andrew's Day Quotes & Sayings

...the telemetrists began to use a computer to program the computer that designed the program for the computer that programmed the robot-controlling computer.
There was nothing but confusion. — Isaac Asimov

I used to hold a fiery wind
and I tried to determine the direction
where poetry would fly. — Alda Merini

Purify thy sacred soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

At the end of the day, if you can't say a line right, it does not matter who your contacts are. — Steven Yeun

For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite. — Leo Tolstoy

I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it. — Natasha Trethewey

For example, one promising target is the peptide oxytocin, which has been reported to reduce anxiety, promote affiliation, attachment, and affection,33 and facilitate extinction of threat conditioning. — Joseph E. Ledoux