“Whatever happens right now, it has to happen.”
“We —I mean to say we mammals — who in general do not have problems about obtaining water, have learned to wedge it into the urea molecule, which is soluble in water, and as urea we free ourselves of it; other animals, for whom water is precious (or it was for their distant progenitors), have made the ingenious invention of packaging their nitrogen in the form of uric acid, which is insoluble in water, and of eliminating it as a solid, with no necessity of having recourse to water as a vehicle. In an analogous fashion one thinks today of eliminating urban garbage by pressing it into blocks, which can be carried to the dumps or buried inexpensively.”
Source: The periodic table
“I am not pointing fingers, but rather pointing at the facts, as the facts point fingers regardless.”
“...the facts of economic life cannot be comprehensively described in terms of statistics.”
Source: The Limits of Economics
“The third story is told in a long and detailed letter written to a friend by Sergeant Benjamin Katz, an orderly in the Royal Army Medical Corps. … This letter is completely different from the other accounts, emotional, shocking, heartbreaking, funny and unforgettable.”
Source: EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORIES OF SURVIVAL IN BURMA WW2: tens of thousands fled to India from the Japanese Invasion in 1942
“Facts don’t require our personal approval for them to be facts.”
Source: The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement (Spiral-Bound) [Spiral-bound] Sharon McMahon
“Nice things don't happen in story books. Or when they do happen, something bad happens next. Because otherwise the story would be
boring, and no one would read it.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“Peace, Montag. Give the people contests they win by remembering the worlds to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“If you corner a man with a gun he will fight to the death, if you corner him with arguments he will call you an idiot.”
“Goldfish don't have stomachs or eyelids. And their resting attention span is actually one-point-oh-nine times that of the average human.”
Source: Bad Blood