“One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.” ScienceRealizingNumbersSuccessfulStupidScientistDullConceptionNarrow-mindedNarrow Minds Author:Konrad Lorenz
“We meet With few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between these two extremes: the interval is filled with multitudes of ordinary geniuses, but all very useful, and the ornaments and supports of the commonwealth.” StillsTwoSoulSupportMankindStupidGeniusOrdinaryFilledExtremesDullMediocrityFewerMultitudesSublimeTranscendentOrnamentsIntervalsCommonwealthGeneralitiesTwo Extremes Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“Among many reasons for being stupid it may be urged, it is being like other people, and living like one's neighbours, and indeed without it, it may be difficult to love some neighbours as oneself: now seeing the necessity of being dull, you won't, I hope, take it amiss that you find me so.” PeopleMayReasonDifficultSeeingStupidOneselfStupidityDullFind MeNeighbourBeing Stupid Author:Elizabeth Montagu
“Never invite to dinner: those who won't decide until the last minute; those who come more than half an hour late; those who want to bring along two or three friends; drunks; monologists; those who stay until three o'clock in the morning; those who think that conversation means having an argument; those who take a high moral tone; those who are stupid, ugly, or dull. Enforcement of these rules will enable one to eat alone every night in comfort.” ThinkingWantMeanTwoLastsNightThreeHoursHalfMoralMorningMinutesStupidComfortConversationLateArgumentUglyDinnerClockToneDullInvitesEvery NightCompanionshipEnforcementLast MinuteThree Friends Author:Mason Cooley
“Mahmoud Darwish wrote that "extreme clarity is a mystery." That sounds right to me. I don't want anyone hunting for anything ancillary to the true mystery. If that means risking being thought of as glib or dull or banal or stupid or whatever, I guess that will just have to be the way it is.” IfsWayWantMeanSoundMysteryStupidExtremesClarityDullHunting Author:Matthew Zapruder
“One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.” TruthSuccessSciencePoliticalMotherRealizingNumbersOpinionSuccessfulStupidScientistNewspapersDullConceptionContrastFoolishnessNarrow-mindedScientific TruthQuestioning BeliefsNarrow Minds Book:The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA Source: The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
“Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.” WayHappensCommonStupidGoes OnDullExpectingAlice And Wonderland Book Book:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches, smelled another's skin, noticed a shade of yellow, even simply sat, with greater lust and hopefulness - and that I lusted with greater faith, hoped with greater abandon. The people I loved were celebrities, surrounded by rumor and fanfare; the places I sat with them, movie lots and monuments. No doubt all of this is not true remembrance but the ruinous work of nostalgia, which obliterates the past, and no doubt, as usual, I have exaggerated everything.” PeopleSeemsPastRememberDoubtGreaterStupidSummerSkinsNostalgiaLovelyLustSatNo DoubtDullAbandonShadeLunchYellowUsualRemembranceRumorMonumentExaggeratedDizzyHopefulnessFanfare Author:Michael Chabon