Friday, August 14, 2020

 Time to clean house and donate a few books.  Here's a few quotes to remember from a few of them:

"A man is what he thinks about all day.   Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.  Did we enjoy today?" - Mr. Bean, from notes taped on his locker in SkyLab, Homesteading Space.


"Socrates is evidence enough that classical Greece was something less of a utopia.  Yet there is an interesting contrast between one lone man sipping poison for ideological reasons and an entire city of millions slowly inhaling a lethal mixture as the price of a lifestyle committed to certain technological and material wants that have become needs.  ....  How have we arrived at these goals?  What price are we willing to pay?" - H. Morowitz, "Prison of Socrates",  Mayonnaise and the Origin of Life


"Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves." F. Mowat