Ulam For Today Quotes

#1. Evidence doesn't always convince people of the truth, [ ... ] especially when the lie is what they prefer.

Daniel Black

#2. In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.

Paul Feig

#3. She had brushed her teeth before vomiting as well, never able to utterly crush the optimistic streak in her nature.

Edward St. Aubyn

#4. It's as if someone vacuumed up the horizon while we were looking the other way.

Jandy Nelson

#5. Laplace's Demon, the hypothetical imp that knows the instantaneous positions and velocities of every particle in the universe, was said to be able to calculate the entire future or past by plugging these values into the equations that express the laws of mechanics and electromagnetism.

Steven Pinker

#6. I remembered what you had said to me on that wonderful evening we first dined together, about the search for beauty being the real secret of life ...

Oscar Wilde

#7. True emotions and sincere words never perish. The great heart of humanity gladly receives and embalms every true utterance of the humblest of its offspring.

Elias Lyman Magoon

#8. JER32.27 Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?

Anonymous

#9. Pleasure and revenge
Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice
Of any true decision.

William Shakespeare

#10. I'm surprised there aren't more mirrors in this house, since you seem to love looking at yourself so much. Azriel

Sarah J. Maas

#11. I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.

Stephen R. Donaldson

#12. If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth, you'll be constantly frustrated by how foolish, biased, and illogical people become when they disagree with you.

Jonathan Haidt

#13. Poor body, time and the long years were the first tailors to teach you the merciless use of clothes. Though some scold today because you are too much seen, to my mind, you are not seen fully enough or often enough when you are beautiful.

Henry Beston