Whatseems Quotes & Sayings

The sky was the colour of sad weddings. — Scarlett Thomas

Sanctimony and self-regard are as American as smallpox blankets and supersize meals. — Colson Whitehead

This is the universal property of the human mind. Abstract rules form the core of everything from computer programs to grammars. Our results show that babies' minds are built to look for such rules - even without being told. — Gary Marcus

Science ... it works. — Marko Kloos

Whatseems to take place outside ideology (to be precise, in the street), in reality takes place in ideology. What really takes place in ideology seems therefore to take place outside it. That is why those who are in ideology believe themselves by definition outside ideology: one of the effects of ideology is the practical denegation of the ideological character of ideology by ideology: ideology never says, 'I am ideological.' — Louis Althusser

Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if you read in the paper that by injecting certain glands scientists can alter your vital tissues and you'll develop froglike characteristics, well, everybody would believe that. — Agatha Christie