The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted. – Rita Levi-Montalcini
It’s not about the failure, it’s about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated. – Satya Nadella
Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid. – Siri Hustvedt
Marcus Crassus cannot, any more than Pompeius, be reckoned among the unconditional adherents of the oligarchy. – Theodor Mommsen