tricia carr

“People like frequent laughter," answered Father Brown, "but I don't think they like a permanent smile. Cheerfulness without humour is a very trying thing.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown

“A model is a lie that helps you see the truth.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

“A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare’s? —C.P. Snow”
― Alan Moran, Climate Change: The Facts

“As a boy, he had been moved by those words of the dying Socrates, suggesting that if death were just one long, unbroken, dreamless sleep, then a greater boon could hardly be bestowed upon mankind.”
― Colin Dexter, The Way Through the Woods