#lex

The Schleswig-Holstein question is so complicated, only three men in Europe have ever understood it. One was Prince Albert, who is dead. The second was a German professor who became mad. I am the third and I have forgotten all about it. ↗

— Lord Palmerston

#politics #men

You are right. I have no idea, and it is none of my business, and I was taught to obey my parents. But sometimes it is just impossible to obey blindly. Sometimes a child must strike out on her own. A child cannot be a child forever, whether that means not touching a spindle or . . . or . . . ↗

— Alex Flinn

#alex-flinn #business

If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#misattributed-to-dorothy-parker #money

It's all in the reflexes. ↗

— "Jack Burton" (Kurt Russell)

#prescience #reflexes #survival #survival-instinct #movies

I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must not for that very reason infallibly be faulty. ↗

— Herman Melville

#human-nature #humanity #infallibility #nature

Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable. ↗

— Howard Pattee

#philosophy #science #systems #nature

God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#father #god #judge #justice #religion

Come on, Rory! It isn't rocket science, it's just quantum physics! -The Doctor (Matt Smith) ↗

— Steven Moffat

#doctor-who #humour #matt-smith #the-god-complex #science

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for ↗

— Alexander Fleming

#science #science

Government succeeds by failing. ↗