My Small Boat

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

I have found out everything. We have come to the wrong star… That is what makes life at once so splendid and so strange. We are in the wrong world. When I thought that was the right town it bored me; when I knew it was the wrong, I was happy. So the false optimism, […]

The Purple Cow
I never saw a purple cow
I never hope to see one
But I can tell you anyhow
I’d rather see than be one!
Confession
Ah yes, I wrote “The Purple Cow”
I’m Sorry now I wrote it
But I can tell you Anyhow
I’ll Kill you if you Quote it!

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library.

- I am standing in the wings of a theatre waiting for my cue to go onstage. As I stand there I can hear the play proceeding, and suddenly it dawns on me that the lines I have learnt are not in this play at all, but belong to quite a different one. Panic […]

The United States, I believe are under the impression that they are twenty years ahead of this country[Great Britain], whilst as a matter of verifiable fact of course they are just six hours behind it.

Better drowned than duffers. If not duffers wont’ drown.

Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it.

Ockam’s Razor

Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.
or
Plurality should not be posited without necessity.
(Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate.)

Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theatres and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself.