PREVIOUS PIECES OF INTELLECTUAL POPCORN

When someone plants a tree, they plant themselves. Every root is an anchor, over which they rest with grateful interest, and become sufficiently calm to feel the joy of living.
John Muir


Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.
Sir Arthur Eddington


Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a person does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses their intelligence.
Albert Einstein


The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein


Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.
Brenda Ueland


Nothing else in the world ... not all the armies ... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo


Above all nations is humanity.
Goldwin Smith