Age - Quotes
Old age is not in itself matter for sorrow; it is matter for thanks, if we have left our work done behind us.
The Age of Discovery in science is coming to a close, opening up an Age of Mastery.
The New Age? It`s just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.
The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.
Vagabonding is about using the prosperity and possibility of the information age to increase your personal options instead of your personal possessions.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. Acceptance of the supernatural conveyed a great advantage throughout prehistory, when the brain was evolving. Thus it is in sharp contrast to biology, which was developed as a product of the modern age and is not underwritten by genetic algorithms. The uncomfortable truth is that the two beliefs are not factually compatible. As a result those who hunger for both intellectual and religious truth will never acquire both in full measure.
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
On a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten - since, in either case, other men and women will continue living, the world will go on as before.