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“An official brought the chief rabbi of a town before the Court of the Inquisition and told him, “We will leave the fate of your people to God. I’m putting two slips of paper in this box. On one is written ‘Guilty.â€� On the other is written ‘Innocent.â€� Draw.â€� Now this inquisitor was known to seek the slaughter of all the Jews, and he had written “Guiltyâ€� on both pieces of paper. The rabbi put his hand inside the box, withdrew a slip of paper—and swallowed it. “What are you doing?â€� cried the inquisitor. “How will the court know—â€� “That’s simple,â€� said the rabbi. “Examine the slip that’s in the box. If it reads ‘Innocent,â€� then the paper I swallowed obviously must have read ‘Guilty.â€� But if the paper in the box reads ‘Guilty,â€� then the one I swallowed must have read ‘Innocent.”
― Leo Rosten, The New Joys of Yiddish: Completely Updated

“If an object - a star, for instance, like our own sun - is eight hundred light years away from the Earth, it would take light leaving that object eight hundred years until it reached our eyes. So when you look at that object, you are seeing it as it appeared eight hundred light years ago, not as it looks today. It might not even exist anymore. Every time you look up at the stars, you are looking into the past.”
― Wendy Mass, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

“Intellectual progress usually occurs through sheer abandonment of questions together with both of the alternatives they assume -- an abandonment that results from their decreasing vitality and a change of urgent interest. We do not solve them: we get over them.”
― John Dewey, The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy and Other Essays

“The harder something is to acquire, the more satisfying it is when you finally find it.”
― Wendy Mass, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life