"As all these results were obtained, not by any heroic method, but by patient and detailed reasoning, I began to think it probable that philosophy had erred in adopting heroic remedies for intellectual difficulties, and that solutions were to be found merely by greater care and accuracy. This view I have come to hold more and more strongly as time went on, and it has led me to doubt whether philosophy, as a study distinct from science and possessed of a method of its own, is anything more than an unfortunate legacy from theology."

- Bertrand Russell, "Logical Atomism"

There was discussion about he and I and Professor Gates having a beer here in the White House. We don't know if that's scheduled yet.
President Obama
Apologizing for his comment on Henry Gates' arrest; Obama previously said police sergeant James Crowley, who arrested the Harvard scholar, "acted stupidly"

That book is good in vain which the reader throws away. He only is the master who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, such as the traveller casts upon departing day."

- Johnson, Lives of the Poets: Dryden

"People don't change their minds. They die, and are replaced by people with different opinions."

- Arturo Albergati

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

~Frederick Douglass