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Posted on March 22, 2020March 22, 2020

“When fools make mistakes they lay the blame on Providence.”—Irish proverb

Posted on March 11, 2020

“Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.”—Sophocles, Greek playwright, 496-406 BC

Posted on March 7, 2020March 7, 2020

“Evolution is a lottery where we only see the winning tickets.”—Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian author, 1952—.

Posted on February 21, 2020February 21, 2020

“The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.”—Alvin Barkley, U.S. Vice-President, 1877-1956

Posted on February 18, 2020

“The mark of an educated mind is to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”—Aristotle, Greek philosopher, 4th century BC

Posted on February 5, 2020February 5, 2020

“A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.”—Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman, 1813-1887

Posted on February 4, 2020February 4, 2020

“Often a fool’s son is a wise man.”—Irish proverb

Posted on January 15, 2020January 15, 2020

“There are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.”—Diane Arbus, American photographer, 1923-1971

Posted on January 14, 2020January 14, 2020

“In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.”—Joseph Priestley FRS, English chemist & discoverer of oxygen, 1733-1804

Posted on January 9, 2020January 9, 2020

“I see no objection to stoutness, in moderation.”—W. S. Gilbert (in Gilbert & Sullivan’s ‘Iolanthe’), English dramatist, 1836-1911

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