jamesq | Five Random Quotes Meme

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Instructions: Go here. Choose five random quotes that you like or feel represent you in some way.

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen Roberts
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
"I have a friend who's an artist, and he somtimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a flower and say, 'Look how beautiful it is,' and I'll agree.But then he'll say, 'I, as an artist, can see how beautiful a flower is. But you, as a scientist, take it all apart and it becomes dull.' I think he is kind of nutty.
First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people - and to me, too, I believe. Although I might not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is, I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. But at the same time, I see much more that he sees. I can imagine the cells inside, which also have a beauty. There's beauty not just at the dimention of one centimeter; there's also beauty at a smaller dimention.
There are the complicated actions of the cells, and other processes. The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see colors. That adds a question: does this aethetic sense we have have also exist in lower forms of life? There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't know how it subtracts." - Richard Feynman
"If you find somebody to love in this world, you better hang on tooth and nail. The wolf is always at the door" - Don Henley
"Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves." - Dorothy Parker