I am not old enough to cope with age - Vernon Scannell
Maths is a language, not the language, & its symbols can be explained in other idioms - Natalie Angier
A fundamental rule of journalism demands the insertion of murders - WA O'Connor: A History of the Irish People, 1884
This year’s BBC Proms season is practically oestrogen-soaked, with new works by five bona fide women – Neil Fisher
There are only about 30 people on the planet capable of diagnosing the problem when huge, complex, real-time systems crash - The Times
A judge can decide in accordance with an article of law or according to his intimate convictions; but the one thing he cannot do is fail to decide - Alain Desrosieres
Quarrels would soon be over if all the faults lay on one side - La Rochefoucauld
Mathematics is a way of describing the universe but not necessarily of understanding it - Kip Hodges
The road to unhappiness is counting other people's money - Michael Hintze
There is no culture without a creation myth & Darwinian evolution is ours - Laurence Hurst
It is more shameful to distrust ones friends than to be deceived by them - La Rochefoucauld
Shakespeare has no heroes; he has only heroines - John Ruskin
Science is about creating the alphabet. With art you are creating the words - Marc Quinn
There are plenty of people for whom Oxbridge success represents the high point of their lives - Andrew Brown
If a book does not make its own scope & purpose plain in the course of some 600 pages its author need not try to make them plainer in a preface - Duke of Argyll
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