Source: A Day Late and a Dollar Short
“It was the technique of a man who selected thoughts as one might select pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. In due course they would be reassembled together so as to make a clear and coherent picture. At the moment the important thing was the selection, the separation.”
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Agatha Christie
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Third Girl
Third Girl (1966)
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George R. Price
(1922–1975) American population geneticist
Price, G.R. (1995). "The nature of selection." Journal of Theoretical Biology 175:389-396 (written circa 1971)
“One more piece for the Great Jigsaw puzzle.”
David Brin
(1950) novelist, short story writer
Commenting on the discovery of Homo floresiensis, in a posting at McMedia.com (27 October 2004) http://www.mail-archive.com/brin-l@mccmedia.com/msg38195.html; an unsourced paraphrase replaces "go to perdition" with "go to hell".
Context: One more piece for the Great Jigsaw puzzle.
I find it truly stunning how many people can shrug off stuff like this, preferring instead a tiny, cramped cosmos just 6,000 years old, scheduled to end any-time-now in a scripted stage show of unfathomable violence and cruelty.
An ancient and immense and ongoing cosmos is so vastly more dramatic and worthy of a majestic Creator. Our brains, capable of exploring His universe, picking up His tools and doing His work, seem destined for much greater tasks than cowering in a small groups of the elect, praying that some of our neighbors will go to perdition...
Source: The God Delusion (2006), p. 153
Benjamin W. Lee
(1935–1977) Korean American physicist
about his work as a particle physicist, at the Fermilab History and Archives Project: Benjamin Lee comments on HEP discoveries http://history.fnal.gov/significant_staff.html#Benjamin_Lee (May, 1976).
Source: They'd Rather Be Right (1954), p. 177.
John Howe (illustrator)
(1957) Canadian illustrator
Lost Worlds : A visit with John Howe (May 2009) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGaxYZX-N3Q
Context: History is like a jigsaw puzzle, except every piece is from a different puzzle, and you try to make them all fit. Although you many never have a finished picture, the time you spend, I think you end up understanding at least the pieces.
Richard Dawkins
(1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
https://twitter.com/richarddawkins/status/566866395540246528 (15 February 2015)
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“Statesmen remember things selectively.”
Ursula K. Le Guin
(1929–2018) American writer
Source: Earthsea Books, The Other Wind (2001), Chapter 2 “Palaces” (p. 102)
“Ur-Fascism is based upon a selective populism, a qualitative populism, one might say.”
Umberto Eco
(1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist
Ur-Fascism (1995)
Context: Ur-Fascism is based upon a selective populism, a qualitative populism, one might say. In a democracy, the citizens have individual rights, but the citizens in their entirety have a political impact only from a quantitative point of view—one follows the decisions of the majority. For Ur-Fascism, however, individuals as individuals have no rights, and the People is conceived as a quality, a monolithic entity expressing the Common Will. Since no large quantity of human beings can have a common will, the Leader pretends to be their interpreter. Having lost their power of delegation, citizens do not act; they are only called on to play the role of the People. Thus the People is only a theatrical fiction. To have a good instance of qualitative populism we no longer need the Piazza Venezia in Rome or the Nuremberg Stadium. There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.