Jon

“When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.”
― Bertolt Brecht, Brecht on Theatre

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Perhaps the difference between a professor and a bus driver is that the professor can say stupid things with complete authority while the bus driver is not authorized to make brilliant insights.”
― Les Back, The Art of Listening

“The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. ”
― H.P. Lovecraft