Sunday, July 19, 2009

Cartmill

"As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls."
-- M. Cartmill

5 comments:

  1. " This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls."

    Apparently, that's not impossible.

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  2. I studied words and language because I thought I heard the older guys say that women love a cunning linguist ........

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  3. becoming a scientist so you can meet girls is also challenging.

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  4. Everyone knows you become an archbishop to meet boys.

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  5. Pops,
    I know. And instead you just ended up a master debater.

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