Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Igor Stravinsky: 'I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Igor Stravinsky: 'The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream to make films.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Edwin Hubble: 'The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Edwin Hubble: 'The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Edwin Hubble: 'Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Carl Sagan: 'I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Carl Sagan: 'For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Carl Sagan: 'When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Carl Sagan: 'We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Carl Sagan: 'Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Carl Sagan: 'The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.' Read More Newer Posts Older Posts
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Igor Stravinsky: 'I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Igor Stravinsky: 'The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream to make films.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 'I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Edwin Hubble: 'The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Edwin Hubble: 'The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Edwin Hubble: 'Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Carl Sagan: 'I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Carl Sagan: 'For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Carl Sagan: 'When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Carl Sagan: 'We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Carl Sagan: 'Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Carl Sagan: 'The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.' Read More