Weisstein Quotes

#1. At his "World of Physics" Web site, Eric W. Weisstein notes that the fine structure constant continues to fascinate numerologists, who have claimed that connections exist between alpha, the Cheops pyramid, and Stonehenge!

Clifford A. Pickover

#2. This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

Eric Ries

#3. When I first started cooking, I was very much an intuitive cook when it came to taste, but that didn't mean I didn't want to know why some things worked and why others did not. My interest took me to culinary school.

Carla Hall

#4. Asking questions is one of the best ways to grow as a human being.

Michael Hyatt

#5. When we hear jokes against women, and we are asked why we don't laugh at them, the answer is easy, simple, and short. Of course we're not laughing ... Nobody laughs at the sight of their own blood.

Naomi Weisstein

#6. The problem with insight, sensitivity, and intuition is that they tend to confirm our biases.

Naomi Weisstein

#7. In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.

Naomi Weisstein

#8. I write in a hurry, because the little one, who has been sleeping a long time, begins to call for me. Poor thing! when I am sad, I lament that all my affections grow on me, till they become too strong for my peace, though they all afford me snatches of exquisite enjoyment.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#9. I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it.

John Waters

#10. A sensitive plant in a garden grew,
And the young winds fed it with silver dew,
And it opened its fan
like leaves to the light,
and closed them beneath the kisses of night.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#11. It's as if women are in a totally rigged race. A lot of men are driving souped-up, low-slung racing cars and we're running as fast as we can in tennis shoes we managed to salvage from a local garage sale.

Naomi Weisstein

#12. Why have they been telling us women lately that we have no sense of humor
when we are always laughing? ... and when we're not laughing, we're smiling.

Naomi Weisstein

#13. Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.

Naomi Weisstein

#14. What an excellent father you have, girls!' said she, when the door was shut. 'Such joys are scarce since the good Lord saw fit to close the gates of Hell and doom the dead to walk amongst us.

Seth Grahame-Smith