Long distance runners break into more pants.
Francis Barton
He launched a massive attack on everything this country held inviolate, onmost of what it held self-evident. He showed how our politics was dominatedby time-servers and demagogues, our religion by bigots, our culture bypuritans. He showed how the average citizen, both in himself and in theway he let himself be pulled around by the nose, was a boob. ― Louis Kronenberger, "H.L. Mencken," in Malcolm Cowley, ed., After the Genteel Tradition, 1964.
The last thing one knows in constructing a work is what to put first. ― Blaise Pascal
Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and lessobvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are nosolids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. Thereare no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straightlines. ― R. Buckminster Fuller
Anytime things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.
Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of alltechnical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams andequations. ― Albert Einstein
