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“If the little grey cells are not exercised, they grow the rust.”

― Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders

So poetic:

They became upright and taught themselves the use of tools, domesticated other animals, plants and fire, and devised language. The ash of stellar alchemy was now emerging into consciousness. At an ever-accelerating pace, it invented writing, cities, art and science, and sent spaceships to the planets and the stars. These are some of the things that hydrogen atoms do, given fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution.

Carl Sagan

Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

I keep thinking about this quote:

“There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.” ― Thomas Sowell

A promise is a direction taken, a self-limitation of choice. As Odo pointed out, if no direction is taken, if one goes nowhere, no change will occur. One’s freedom to choose and to change will be unused, exactly as if one were in jail, a jail of one’s own building, a maze in which no one way is better than any other.…

Amen:

Knowledge means Ever-renewed assurance by defeat That victory is somehow still to reach; But love is victory, the prize itself. Robert Browning

Saw quote here.

Wow

We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.
Marshall McLuhan

Hat tip to Joe Weisenthal

Came across this quote here. The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them. G.K. Chesterton The full passage: But among these million facts all flowing one way there…