So, You Think You're Clever? Quotes

“Life is a wonderful, precious thing – a tiny realm of order in the vast chaos of the unliving universe around – and all living things need protection. A cell has its cytoplasm. Fish have their scales. Humans have skin. Bark is a tree’s.”
― John Farndon, So, You Think You're Clever?: Taking on The Oxford and Cambridge Questions

“They are, mostly, sane people who are telling their story truthfully.”
― John Farndon, So, You Think You're Clever?: Taking on The Oxford and Cambridge Questions

“People need change now, today. Even one more child dying from hunger, one more life blighted by poverty, is one too many.”
― John Farndon, So, You Think You're Clever?: Taking on The Oxford and Cambridge Questions

“The mistake, Wittgenstein argued, is in thinking philosophy can answer these questions. It comes partly from a flawed view of language that insists that if a word has meaning, there must be a thing attached to that meaning. The philosopher asks, ‘What is reality?’, ‘What is justice?’ or ‘What is the mind?’ and then goes looking with logic for the identity of that thing – and of course can’t find it, because they are just words.”
― John Farndon, So, You Think You're Clever?: Taking on The Oxford and Cambridge Questions

“Philosophers, Wittgenstein said, had made the mistake of being like scientists chasing the meaning behind things – truth, mind, time, justice, reality – when none of this really matters, or is even achievable. A philosopher might waste his time wondering how he knew the child with the cut knee screaming her head off was really in pain, while the mother would rush in with comfort and bandages. The philosopher was clearly the one with lessons to learn.”
― John Farndon, So, You Think You're Clever?: Taking on The Oxford and Cambridge Questions

“Nature abhors a vacuum’.”
― John Farndon, So, You Think You're Clever?: Taking on The Oxford and Cambridge Questions

“History is littered with rulers and their rivals brought down by poison.”
― John Farndon, So, You Think You're Clever?: Taking on The Oxford and Cambridge Questions

“All substances are poisons; there is none which is not.”
― John Farndon, So, You Think You're Clever?: Taking on The Oxford and Cambridge Questions