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• My counsin is a statistician and he regularly draws wild postulations from which he deduces unwarrented assumptions which lead to his foregone conclusions.
  It is his job to support all of this with numerical facts which substantiate these bizarre prejudices....
• REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew.
  The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing....
• The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. -- Blaise Pascal
• UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house.
  Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse....
• A "critic" is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men.
  There is logic in this; he is unbiased -- he hates all creative people equally....
• He that has no patience has nothing at all.
• The stars are made of the same atoms as the earth." I usually pick one small topic like this to give a lecture on.
  Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars -- mere gobs of gas atoms....
• A "critic" is a person who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative people.
  There is logic in this; he is unbiased-- he hates all creative people equally....