#th

Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#absurdly #all things #become #beneath #earth

When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#bits #chicken #clock #discrete #dishwasher

Every week when my batch of weekly cartoons would go to FedEx, it felt like a small miracle. Then in a few days, it's 'Here we go again.' ↗

— Gary Larson

#batch #cartoons #days #every #felt

I'll tell you one thing, since I'm married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me. ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#i #look #married #me #one thing

A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers. ↗

— James Larkin

#arrangement #carried #degree #employers #gain

I keep thinking someone's gonna show up and say, 'There's been a big mistake. The guy next door is supposed to be drawing the cartoon. Here's your shovel.' ↗

— Gary Larson

#big #big mistake #cartoon #door #drawing

The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland. ↗

— James Larkin

#ireland #land #people

Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#conflict #course #debate #deep #gave

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#chaps #explaining #go #going #how

In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#across #been #could #cures #difference