Versene Solution Quotes & Sayings

We underestimate the power of science, and overestimate the power of personal observation. A peer-reviewed, journal-published, replicated report is worth far more than what you see with your own eyes. Our own eyes can deceive us. People can fool themselves, hallucinate, and even go insane. The controls on publication in major journals are more trustworthy than the very fabric of your brain. If you see with your own eyes that the sky is blue, and Science says it is green, then sir, I advise that you trust in Science.
This is not what most scientists will tell you, of course; but I think it is pragmatically true. Because in real life, what happens is that your eyes have a little malfunction and decide that the sky is green, and science will tell you that the sky is blue. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense of an enormous void, the void of a city and of a continent, where she would never be able to find the man whom she had no right to seek. — Ayn Rand

I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories. — Mira Nair

There was no damn way we were ever gonna put our people into the ground again.
Beneath us was hell.
Heaven's above ...
... and that's where we all deserve to be. — Joshua Ortega

He pinpointed Helen immediately, despite so many women - all dressed in somber mourning attire - against a background of pitch dark. He offered her a weak smile, somewhere between, 'I didn't mean to look at you' and 'I couldn't help but look at you. — Becca St. John

You will find that there is no other difference of opinion as regards any portions of the Universe, except that the philosophers believe in the Eternity of the Universe and we believe in the Creation. Note this. — Maimonides

I'm not trying to bleed you. I want to renew you. — W.P. Kinsella

I don't like to go over curbs, because I don't want to be hard on the car. — Alain Prost

Bored people looked for drama and caused trouble. — Lisa Unger