“Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit.” —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The conclusion suggested by these arguments might be called the paradox of theorizing. It asserts that if the terms and the general principles of a scientific theory serve their purpose, i. e., if they establish the definite connections among observable phenomena, then they can be dispensed with since any chain of laws and interpretive statements establishing such a connection should then be replaceable by a law which directly links observational antecedents to observational consequents.” —C.G. (Carl Gustav)
“I’ve gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground.” —Marvin Cohen, U.S. author and humorist. Baseball the Beautiful, Links Books (1970)