#rooms

In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#apples #assent #classrooms #confirmed #degree

I have studios in the different places where I live - in Ibiza, Paris and London - but they're not crazy studios, they're just rooms with good monitors, and all I do is plug my laptop in. It's a different way to make music, but for me, I love it, because it's more connected to the world. ↗

— David Guetta

#connected #crazy #different #different places #different way

I play in a lot of empty rooms. ↗

— Colin Hay

#i #lot #play #rooms

If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#another #better #easier #furnished #future

The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s and '70s. It would have been taken off the air. It is beamed into people's living rooms on Sunday afternoons, with children watching. ↗

— Damon Hill

#beamed #been #being #children #drivers

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#i #i think #just #our #painters

I'm traveling the world, ripping rooms apart with my stupendous comedy. ↗

— Todd Barry

#comedy #i #ripping #rooms #stupendous

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#get #into #keep #main #mine

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London. ↗

— John le Carre

#intelligence #james #knew #little #london

Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

#binds #blunders #friendship #honesty #mushrooms