Vassilisa

“It's from the newspapers that people I know - relatives and co-workers - have got the idea that crosswords are a prophylactic against Alzheimer's. Newspapers are of course also the place where crosswords (and now sudokus) are most readily available, so the association is presumably good for circulation.”
― Alan Connor, Two Girls, One on Each Knee (7): The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword

“The whole of language is a continuous process of metaphor, and the history of semantics is an aspect of the history of culture; language is at the same time a living thing and a museum of fossils of life and civilisations.”
― Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks

“[The purpose of flight research] is to separate the real from the imagined problems and to make known the overlooked and the unexpected.”
― Hugh L. Dryden

“Research is the highest form of adoration”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin