Charles Seife Quotes

#1. That higher awakening is called God-consciousness. In that condition, you will see that all the objects of the world are your own universal self.

Krishnananda Saraswati

#2. 'Naked Gun 33 1/3' I think made me laugh more than anything ever made.

Horatio Sanz

#3. See appendix A for a proof that Winston Churchill was a carrot.

Charles Seife

#4. I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer.

Keith Moon

#5. If you want to get people to believe something really, really stupid, just stick a number on it.

Charles Seife

#6. It was the best job I ever had. I just left because my whole team was leaving and the new guys were coming.

Victoria Jackson

#7. We dream of the world we could have made, and wake up in the world that we did.

Craig Stone

#8. If you want to convince the world that a fish can sense your emotions, only one statistical measure will suffice: the p-value.

Charles Seife

#9. Just as it's important to take the changing value of a dollar into account when comparing spending over time, it's important to take doctors' changing diagnoses into account when looking at disease trends

Charles Seife

#10. A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. The body, the house of the spirit, is under the power of pleasure and pain," explains a god. "And if a man is ruled by his body then this man can never be free.

Charles Seife

#12. We were created to look at one another, weren't we

Edgar Degas

#13. Where there is the Infinite there is joy. There is no joy in the finite. - THE CHANDOGYA UPANISHAD

Charles Seife

#14. The manufacturing of most goods harms the environment in one way or another. The culprit is not the factory, but it is we who buy what it produces. Therefore we should think carefully about items we purchase.

Amy Dacyczyn

#15. Horrified, unbearably aroused, he blurted out, "You wouldn't."
Ethan leaned over and kissed his ear, whispering, "Why does that sound so much like 'please'?

Jane Davitt