Archive for Quotes

Dark Matter and God

Andy Spero | December 22, 2009 | 0 Comment(s) |

There is an excellent column in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal entitled, A Dark Matter Breakthrough?

In it, the physicist Lawrence Krauss writes about dark matter, which may or may not exist. It does exist in many theories that seem to require it to eliminate otherwise incongruent observations, and there may be empirical evidence that supports its existence, or not.

If it does exist, it may have a mass that is ten times greater than visible matter.

When we read articles like his, a few things come… Read the rest

Rough God Goes Riding

Andy Spero | December 3, 2008 | 0 Comment(s) |

Music for Our Times

The turbulence in the financial markets shows no sign of ending.  Commodities buyers, including food companies and airlines, suffer large losses from ”hedging” programs as prices plummet.  “Hedge” funds suffer losses that are exacerbated by the high leverage applied during calmer days; redemptions are limited.  Industries and unions beg for our tax dollars.  State governments beg for our other tax dollars.  All the while, heaping mounds of mortgages moulder unvalued and unsold.1  As $119 million man Robert Rubin laments: “Nobody was prepared for this…”

It reminds us… Read the rest

Principles Lost and More

Andy Spero | October 3, 2008 | 0 Comment(s) |

Or–to seriously mix our metaphors–falling head-over-heels for the wolves’ claims that the “sky is falling.”

Our favorite line from the play and movie, A Man for All Seasons, is Saint Thomas More’s statement at his trial in which he gently belittles one of his perjuring accusers, Richie Rich:

“Why Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world…Ahh, but for Wales?”

Mr. Rich received an appointment from Henry VIII in Wales for his efforts.

After performing a short and cursory search of the web, we’re… Read the rest

People Who Hate Themselves (and Everyone Else)

Andy Spero | June 2, 2008 | 0 Comment(s) |

Yesterday, we read the quote below while donating blood.  (We can’t think too much about the actual process.)  We liked the quote so much, we decided to post it on our Quotes page at the first opportunity.  Several of our essays, like