Isaac Asimov book The Gods Themselves
Section 3 “...contend in vain?”, Chapter 3 (p. 187)
The Gods Themselves (1972)
Chris Eubank http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,,1010013,00.html#article_continue
Isaac Asimov book The Gods Themselves
Section 3 “...contend in vain?”, Chapter 3 (p. 187)
The Gods Themselves (1972)
Gretchen Rubin (1966) American writer
Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
“My shoe has caught a Pig
I am a Pig Trap”
Spike Hawkins (1943) British writer
Pig poetry http://www.porkopolis.org/lib/poetry/hawkins-s.htm
“Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.”
Plato (-427–-347 BC) Classical Greek philosopher
Attributed to Plato on quotes sites but never sourced.
Disputed
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2005, Address to the Nation on Iraqi Elections (December 2005)
“I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.
And that no one knows the truth.”
Molly Ivins (1944–2007) American journalist
“The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.”
Sacha Guitry (1885–1957) French dramatist and playwright
Book of Humorous Quotations, ed. Connie Robertson (1998), page 83
Lloyd deMause (1931) American thinker
although all my graduate training was in political science
Source: Foundations of Psychohistory (1982), Ch. 2, ibid.
“I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.”
Roald Dahl (1916–1990) British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter
Source: Fantastic Mr. Fox