Rene Stein

“Organizátor konference známé pod zkratkou TED (obludnosti, jež dělá z vědců estrádní baviče) si stěžoval, že styl mé prezentace nesplňuje jeho kritéria uhlazenosti, a moji přednášku na téma „černých labutí“ a křehkosti nedovolil umístit na internet. Později si samozřejmě nárokoval podíl na mém varování proneseném ještě před krizí z roku 2008.”
― Anonymous

“On the whole, their message to their students remained steady: that science was good and metaphysics was bad. As Neurath put it to Feigl in 1938, “what we have in common will remain; as products of their time, the differences will fade.”
― David Edmonds, The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle

“A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.”
― George Orwell, All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“We’ve known for a long time that it was no longer possible to overturn this world, nor reshape it, nor head off its dangerous headlong rush. There’s been only one possible resistance: to not take it seriously.”
― Milan Kundera, The Festival of Insignificance