It is as misdirected to love or admire science, in the large, as poetry. One must ask after not poetry but poems, and not science but experiments.
Mar 282023
Mar 272023
One way to mark an important event is if the people who constantly opine in public suddenly have nothing to say.
Mar 242023
I’m no misanthrope. Some of my best friends are people.
Mar 232023
Problems are generally minor; the disasters are the solutions.
Mar 222023
No aphorism wants to be born a cliché; every aphorism wants to die one.
Mar 212023
Eccentric diets and exercise — vegan, paleo, ultra-marathon, yoga — advertise themselves as cures for the body; in fact they are cures for the soul, often at the body’s expense.
Mar 202023
The wish that things were otherwise, if ardent enough, becomes, by degrees, the belief that they are.
Mar 172023
Students need to see thinking in action. Instead they are shown thinking accomplished, and the two look nothing alike.
Mar 162023
The cure for writer’s block is speaker’s block.
Mar 152023
The complacent success begins as a resentful failure.