Unscientific Lockdown Quotes & Sayings

For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth: the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. — Anonymous

The compulsion of fate is bitter. — Christoph Martin Wieland

My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else. — David Hockney

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water. — Kate Chopin

Education is neither writing on a blank slate nor allowing the child's nobility to come into flower. Rather, education is a technology that tries to make up for what the human mind is innately bad at. Children don't have to go to school to learn to walk, talk, recognize objects, or remember the personalities of their friends, even though these tasks are much harder than reading, adding, or remembering dates in history. They do have to go to school to learn written language, arithmetic, and science, because those bodies of knowledge and skill were invented too recently for any species-wide knack for them to have evolved. — Steven Pinker

Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation. — James Hogg

I feel that its our children who do give us hope because they are the ones who are going to save the world. — Blythe Danner

They tried to kill me," he said, his brow furrowed as he glared at them. "You saw them!" "Yeah?" I spouted off. "They weren't very good at it!" (Trent and Rachel) — Kim Harrison

It was simply impossible to support Carter for reelection in 1980 and easy for me to support Reagan. The Reagan campaign was happy to have Democratic support, and the Reagan administration was happy to have Democrats in it; they took the view that, after all, Reagan himself had been a Democrat, so it was not a strike against you. — Elliott Abrams