Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Previously in favourite quotations (14)

The sad part of civilisation is that it makes people like solitude & eat quite little rather often - Winifred Peck

Most human societies have not found that their insatiable natural curiosity drove then on to invent science as we know it – Mary Midgley

The beautiful regularity in the statures of a population, whenever they are marshalled in order of their heights, is due to the number of variable elements of which stature is the sum - Francis Galton

The best things in life aren’t things - Attila the Stockbroker