Today's Quotables

“Ignorance is the most delightful science in the world because it is acquired without labor or pains and keeps the mind from melancholy.” - source

"Perhaps the greatest gift ever bestowed on us by evolution is the ability to believe we are more powerful than we are." - source

"The educational systems in most countries pretend it's easy. They expect you to commit to a field long before you could know what it's really like........... They don't tell you, but I will: when it comes to figuring out what to work on, you're on your own." - source

"Knowledge expands fractally, and from a distance its edges look smooth, but once you learn enough to get close to one, they turn out to be full of gaps" - source

"The three most powerful motives are curiosity, delight, and the desire to do something impressive. Sometimes they converge, and that combination is the most powerful of all." - source

"Lots of great things began with someone saying "How hard could it be? This is one case where the young have an advantage. They're more optimistic, and even though one of the sources of their optimism is ignorance, in this case ignorance can sometimes beat knowledge." - source