THE FIRE WILL SOON BURN OUT. THEN WE’LL JUST HAVE THE COLD TO WORRY ABOUT.

“If we found life on another planet that was smarter than we were… that would totally mess with our ego.” — Neil Degrasse Tyson

If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants. — Issac Newton

As always there are those who reveal their asininity (as they did throughout his career) with ascriptions like “salesman”, “showman” or the giveaway blunder “triumph of style over substance”.  The use of that last phrase, “style over substance” has always been, as Oscar Wilde observed, a marvellous and instant indicator of a fool. For those who perceive a separation between the two have either not lived, thought, read or experienced the world with any degree of insight, imagination or connective intelligence. It may have been Leclerc Buffon who first said “le style c’est l’homme – the style is the man” but it is an observation that anyone with sense had understood centuries before, Only dullards crippled into cretinism by a fear of being thought pretentious could be so dumb as to believe that there is a distinction between design and use, between form and function, between style and substance. — Stephen Fry

Never you mind, death professor

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” — Samuel Johnson

This is the “fuck you” button. You push it and you momentarily realize everything before hitting the button is marginally less important than the decision to push that button. Upon releasing the button, all you’ll be able to do is question the significance of what led you to the button.

“Have no fear of perfection.
You’ll never reach it.” — Salvador Dali