#versa

To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, first-hand experience which in its origins, or means, or end has passed through one of the five senses. And if we doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to these senses – ribelli ad essi sensi – such as the existence of God or of the soul or similar things over which there is always dispute and contention. And in fact it happens that whenever reason is wanting men to cry out against one another, which does not happen with certainties. For this reason we shall say that where the cry of controversy is heard, there is no true science, because the truth has one single end and when this is published, argument is destroyed for ever. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#religious #science #universal-truths #experience

And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters. ↗

— Norton Juster

#because #between #book #characters #conversation

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane. ↗

— Mark Twain

#insane #matters #opinion #our #perfect

Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him the timeline, because we had 90 days to get these prisons operational and transfer responsibility back to the Iraqis. ↗

— Janis Karpinski

#ambassador #another #arrived #back #baghdad

I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads. ↗

— Lawrence Kasdan

#done #heads #i #kind #many

Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal. ↗

— Leon Kass

#ban #banned #cloning #countries #efforts

Polite conversation is rarely either. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#conversation #either #polite #rarely

All nature wears one universal grin. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#nature #universal #wears

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people. ↗

— Joan Collins

#people #problem #rich #rich people #universal

I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly. ↗

— Sean Connery

#boring #chance #conversations #english #french