#logic

If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging, they say. Heck it is. It is an adaptive effect of aging. ↗

— Kenneth H. Cooper

#age #aging #body #body fat #does

How very wet this water is. ↗

— L. Frank Baum

#logic #obvious #funny

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#hope #independent #logic

I think Veblen had an interest in logic. ↗

— Stephen Cole Kleene

#i #i think #interest #logic #think

I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#consisting #course #debate #debts #decades

I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#fancy #i #i think #just #pattern

Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#better #better place #community #each #everybody

The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect. ↗

— Rene Dubos

#effects #extremely #important #indirect #most

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#been #biological #build #design #fact

I wouldn't say I was grumpy. It's more pathological - I have seismic tantrums. I get red in the face and cry at least three times a week, and I have to lie down and have a nap afterwards. ↗

— Jenny Eclair

#cry #down #face #get #grumpy