André > André's Quotes

“... um fazedor de versos que deixou a sua parte de loucura no mundo, é essa a grande diferença que há entre os poetas e os doidos, o destino da loucura que os tomou.”
― José Saramago, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

“... um homem não vai menos perdido por caminhar em linha recta.”
― José Saramago, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

“It is surprising that people do not believe that there is imagination in science. It is a very interesting kind of imagination, unlike that of the artist. The great difficulty is in trying to imagine something that you have never seen, that is consistent in every detail with what has already been seen, and that is different from what has been thought of; furthermore, it must be definite and not a vague proposition. That is indeed difficult.”
― Richard P. Feynman, The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

“With all due respect to poetic concision, the male of the species was endowed with a pair when a single might have sufficed.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“For as it turns out, one can revisit the past quite pleasantly, as long as one does so expecting nearly every aspect of it to have changed.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow