Wisdom

Wisdom is previous and often comes from people who think deeply about the universe as it actually exists.

Scientists of all types, and most especially those that broke the mold are often very insightful, wise and worth listening to.

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

— Albert Einstein (pacifist and humanist)

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

— Marie Curie (pioneering chemist and first female Nobel Laureate)

"Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine."

— Alan Turing (pioneering computer scientist and mathematician who happend to be gay)

Humour

Humour helps us cope with, and understand, the world around us.

Humour takes many forms, but there is perhaps nothing more potent that the perfect one-liner. It takes real skill to distil a big idea into a single sentence!

George Carlin

"It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it."

"The reason we argue about meaning is that we all secretly know there isn't any."

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

Lenny Bruce

"Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else."

Joan Rivers

"Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes."

"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

Janeane Garofalo

"The problem with being cynical is that you end up being right all the time."

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies."