Brian L. Silver quotes

“Toward the end of his life, Gödel feared that he was being poisoned, and he starved himself to death. His theorem is one of the most extraordinary results in mathematics, or in any intellectual field in this century. If ever potential mental instability is detectable by genetic analysis, an embryo of someone with Kurt Gödel's gifts might be aborted.”
-- Brian L. Silver

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“In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than by being learned.”

Source : The Guardian, September 30, 1989.

“It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten. It is a great intellectual challenge and a gorgeous sensual experience.”

“I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.”

“I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul.”

“History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.”

“Edward Conard’s book represents the most cogent and persuasive analysis of the Financial Crisis to date. It is deeper and likely more accurate than what we have seen so far from journalists, academ- ics, and particularly former government officials.”

“There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'”

“Of beer, an enthusiast has said that it could never be bad, but that some brands might be better than others.”

“I was already headed for Hell, I might as well enjoy the ride.”

“I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn't let it happen because I changed my compass along the way.”