Folio Columns 2003-2014 Quotes

“There is no doubt that a little difficulty and plenty of variety keep you young, or at any rate amused, which may be nearly the same thing. I sometimes wonder whether science will one day establish that we die of boredom.”
― Luca Turin, Folio Columns 2003-2014

“The first is that I firmly believe that much of the quality we call intelligence is quantitative: he who finds the correct solution to a problem has simply tried out more things that he who does not.”
― Luca Turin, Folio Columns 2003-2014

“you seldom hear, at a funeral, a friend of the deceased saying, “What do you expect, she wore L’Heure Bleue,”
― Luca Turin, Folio Columns 2003-2014

“Until proven innocent, I regard all “gardenias” as I do footprints of the Snowman, engines that run on vacuum energy, or good wines from Savoie.”
― Luca Turin, Folio Columns 2003-2014

“Every child is at some point a small Perseus, and this infatuation with the dark and the lonely is for most people an acute condition, best caught early in life like mumps, and which seldom recurs.”
― Luca Turin, Folio Columns 2003-2014