Reader

“What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent”
― Isaac Newton

“A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.”
― Sir Isaac Newton

“You know, that might be the answer – to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That’s a trick that never seems to fail.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22