"Maybe we will have to accept that certain features of the universe are they way they are because of happenstance, accident, or divine choice.  The success of the scientific method in the past has encouraged us to think that with enough time and effort we can unravel nature's mysteries.  But hitting the absolute limit of scientific explanation — not a technical obstacle or the current by progressing edge of human understanding — would be a singular event, one for which past experience could not prepare us."  Brian Greene.  The Elegant Universe.  NY.  Norton.  1999.  385.

 

"The task is, not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what one has yet thought about that which everybody sees."
Erwin Shrödinger. 1887-1961.

 

Shakespeare on Politicians. Sounds like he knew Mootch McC!

Hamlet.

"This might be the pate of a politician, which this ass not o'erreaches; one that would circumvent God, might it not?"  V. i. 73-75.

Montaigne.  Essais. iii. v.

Celui qui dict tout . . .

 

"He that speakes all he knows doth cloy & distaste us.  Who feareth to expresse himself, leadeth our conceite to imagine more than happily he conceiveth."  Florio. transl.  794.