1. 12 Feb


     

  2. 16 Jan



    I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things I have explained, but also as to those which I have intentionally omitted, so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
    — René Descartes
     

  3. 16 Jan



    We cannot confuse what to us appears unnatural with the absolutely impossible.
    — Carl Friedrich Gauss
     

  4. 15 Jan



    The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
    — Goethe
     

  5. 13 Jan



    Depend upon it,
    there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.
    — 

    Sherlock Holmes

    in A Case of Identity by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

     

  6. 13 Jan



    He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
    — 

    Mark Twain

    in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

     

  7. 2 Aug


     

  8. 30 Dec



    Folks that throw dirt on you aren’t always trying to hurt you, and folks that pull you out of a jam aren’t always trying to help you. But the main point is when you’re up to your nose in shit, keep your mouth shut.
    — Jack Beauregard, character in the film My Name is Nobody
     

  9. 11 Oct



    A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting.
    — Doctor Who In “The Time Monster” By Robert Sloman, BBC, 1972
     

  10. 10 Oct



    Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.
    — Bertrand Russell, In WH Auden and L Kronenberger, eds. The Viking Book of Aphorisms, Viking, 1962, p263
     

  11. 18 Sep



    We’re all pretty bizarre.
    Some of us are just better at hiding it, that’s all.
    — Emilio Estevez as Andrew Clark in The Breakfast Club, 1985
     

  12. 16 Sep



    …for what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
    — Princess of Sweet Rhyme, “The Phantom Tollbooth” by Norton Juster

    (Source: c0nch1.blogspot.com)

     

  13. 7 Sep



    Answers are easy. It’s asking the right questions [that’s] hard.
    — Doctor Who, “The Face of Evil” by Chris Boucher (BBC, 1977)
     

  14. 6 Sep



    The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first.
    — Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670