Ignobel Prize 2018 Quotes

#1. It is my saddest day as an MP when my party brings in a bill which I'm fundamentally opposed to. I'm very sad my party has brought this in without any democratic mandate.

Peter Bone

#2. A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the 'Redwall' books.

Ned Vizzini

#3. Again and again parents describe ... the trancelike nature of their children's television watching. The child's facial expression is transformed. The jaw is relaxed and hangs open slightly; the tongue rests on the front teeth. The eyes have a glazed, vacuous look.

Marie Winn

#4. The religions that fascinate me and, you know, could possibly tempt me are not the ones that involve faith or belief. They're the ones that offer you the opportunity to know the spirit or deity.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#5. Metaphysics,
the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#6. The greatest sacredness is great love.

Lailah Gifty Akita