Richard Feynmann — famous physicist, womanizer and bongo player — said this in his renowned Feynman Lectures on Physics (Vol. 1):

“It is just a strange fact that we can calculate some number, and when we finish watching nature go through her tricks and calculate the number again, it is the same.” (source)
He was talking [...]

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George W. Bush drew much derision when he uttered his famous declaration, “I am the decider.”
In my reading, the derision wasn’t directed so much at the sentiment as at his phraseology. But his plainspeak was still intriguing. Who else but someone with six of ten planets in so-called “cardinal zones” — and most planets on [...]

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Another image that stuck with me from my walk to work this morning was a bicycle chained to a lamppost. Although it’s not abnormal for a bicycle to be chained up, we don’t tend to think of it that way. Say “bicycle” to any innocent bystander and the imagery and energy you’ll most likely conjure [...]

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You’ve been there many times: In an elevator with one other person.
Maybe you made brief eye contact when you stepped in — before the door closed behind you — but you quickly looked down, and so did he. Or she.
You punched the button for your floor and settled back on your heels, heard yourself breathing, [...]

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