Thursday, March 01, 2012
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Another proud member of the irony-based community.
"Mysterious Jackson area lawyer's blog about history, literature, and whatever irks him." -- NMC
"Just a hypersensitive pantywaist probably of Gallic descent who still suffers nightmares over what Gaius Julius did to your people 2,000 years ago." -- Kingfish
And therefore, reader, I myself am the subject of my book; it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain.
-- Montaigne, Essays, "To the Reader.""I shall see myself, I shall read myself, I shall go into ecstacies, and I shall ask -- Is it possible that I have so much ésprit?"
-- Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols.... the torturer has become – like the pirate and slave trader before him – hostis humani generis, an enemy of all mankind.
-- Filártiga v. Peña-Irala, 630 F.2d 876, 890 (2d Cir. 1980)
The First Theorem of Science, according to Nobel Prize winner Robert B. Laughlin, is: "It is impossible to convince a person of any true thing that will cost him money." He also suggests that we drop "of Science" from the name.
ReplyDeleteR.B. Laughlin, A Different Universe, p. 114.
I think he was paraphrasing Upton Sinclair: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
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