Sylvain Bérubé

“L'absurde naît de cette confrontation entre l'appel humain et le silence déraisonnable du monde.”
― Albert Camus, Der Mythos des Sisyphos/Der erste Mensch/Die Pest/Der Fremde/Der Fall/Der glückliche Tod

“Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.”
― Albert Einstein

“I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.”
― Edgar Mitchell