Quotes About Perspective

Truth doesn't matter! It's what people will believe that matters.

Boyd thought about this. "No, because my eyes would be smashed down on the 2D surface. So I'd only see a convex line, or maybe a straight one.

To a 2D being, there is no up and down, just side to side. No matter how hard they try, they can't pry their eyes or bodies from the page.

The easiest way for you to make sense of this is to imagine that you're a two-dimensional being. A being flatter than the flattest pancake, living on the surface of a giant, empty, plastic box. As a 2D being, you can only see the surface of the

Great," I said, rolling my eyes. "We'll get the chance to know what it feels like to be an ear of corn as a thick cloud of locusts approach.

translating if you will, so that you perceive this room in the usual three dimensions.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says. He is always convinced that it says what he means." —George Bernard Shaw

My father let me think about this and then asked me what I'd do the next time a test came around. How would I prepare for it? It occurred to me that if I knew I really couldn't earn an A, what was the point of killing myself? I told my father, and he agreed. In fact, he told me that soon the entire class would be getting Cs, and then Ds. And eventually Fs. Socialism at work.

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Mark Zuckerberg is an optimist, whereas Elon Musk and Bill Gates are very much the opposite, as was the late Stephen Hawking.

If we lost all the dead space inside our atoms, we would each be able to fit into a particle of dust, and the entire human race would fit into the volume of a sugar cube.

Thomas Paine had written, "What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.

Kill one man and you're a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you're a conqueror.

It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.'" Altschuler

It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

How are you making utopia sound like Hell on Earth?

A man asks a woman if she would sleep with him for ten million dollars. She agrees. He then asks if she would sleep with him for a dollar. She is aghast. "What kind of woman do you take me for?" she asks. To that, the man responds, "We have established what you are, madam. Now we're just haggling over the price.

most deeply held beliefs of early adulthood have changed over the years, through repeated exposure to new and different experiences, and to new ways of thought.

If I wasn't my own harshest critic, I might start feeling important about now." Nick smiled. "Then I'm glad I didn't tell you we plan to give you tech that changes water into wine," he said with a twinkle in his eye.

There have been thousands of different religions through time. And the followers of each of these religions believe that their founders received the divine answer, and that the religious mythology of all other religions is delusional. Almost everyone agrees that all the other religions were invented by man, just not the particular one into which they were born.

If I claim that an invisible giant hamster is hovering above me, I'm a lunatic. If I sense the spirit of God hovering above me, I'm simply a spiritual being.

It's been said that history is told by the victors.

Reed and Hoyer both had the steak the major had raved about, while Allie had a Caesar salad.

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality and then there are those who turn one into the other.