Boffins Quotes

#1. Where would we be without science? Sure, those boffins may have come up with occasionally handy items such as life-saving medicine, air travel and the internet, but science is also guilty of some terrible things, like eugenics and Jordan's breasts.

Ian O'Doherty

#2. I think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write.

Margaret Atwood

#3. The voice was a blood-song. He knew it instinctively. Another blood-song. The tone was different from his own, stronger and more controlled. Another voice speaking in his mind.

Anthony Ryan

#4. Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.

Anna Cora Mowatt

#5. The male ego is a curious thing. It's about the size of a small continent but it's extremely brittle.

Charles Stross

#6. I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts.

Jonathan Haidt