Rufus Wainwright (1973) American-Canadian singer-songwriter and composer
Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk
Song lyrics, Poses (2001)
“It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.”
— Carl Sagan, book Pale Blue Dot
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994), p. 159
Context: It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works — that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so doing it discriminates among the waves, and that the sky is blue for the same reason that the sunset is red? It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.
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Quel fallo poi che al fin in ben riesse.
Act V (Filarco).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 295.
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originally published in "The Nature of Love" https://books.google.ca/books?id=e10mee-djCUC&pg=PA673&lpg=PA673&dq=The+little+we+know+about+love+does+not+transcend+simple+observation&source=bl&ots=p1ez0bTQib&sig=BH1fmd9ZXLJ3h3pDHwIFdchsnnU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj04cSaxsTQAhXLx1QKHQ9bAgoQ6AEIJjAB#v=onepage&q=The%20little%20we%20know%20about%20love%20does%20not%20transcend%20simple%20observation&f=false, American Psychologist, volume 13, number 12, December 1958 <br class="br">Context: Love is a wondrous state, deep, tender, and rewarding. Because of its intimate and personal nature it is regarded by some as an improper topic for experimental research. But, whatever our personal feelings may be, our assigned missions as psychologists is to analyze all facets of human and animal behavior into their component variables. So far as love or affection is concerned, psychologists have failed in this mission. The little we know about love does not transcend simple observation, and the little we write about it has been written better by poets and novelists.
John Buchan book A Lodge in the Wilderness
The scene is a society ball in London.
Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. V, p. 145.
Romeo LeBlanc (1927–2009) Canadian politician
Source: installation speech, February 8, 1995