# Quotations III

Originally published: 2013-11-18
Canonical URL: /2013/Nov/quotations-iii/

> I am convinced, from many experiments, I could not study, to any degree of perfection, either mathematics, arithmetic, or algebra, without being a Deist, if not an Atheist.

—John Wesley
  
> Selfishness and altruism are positively correlated within individuals, for the obvious reason.

—[@InstanceOfClass](https://twitter.com/InstanceOfClass/status/355050621147152386)


> There is only one book: the world book. And all books are volumes of this one book. And all pages are pages of this world book. [...] You’re already skimming. You're already skipping over. You’re already not reading all the pages of the book.

—Khatzumoto, "[All Reading Is Skimming](http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/reading-is-skimming)"

  
> The moral is that it is probably better not to sin at all, but if some kind of sin you must be pursuing,

—"Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man" by Odgen Nash

  
> Science may not fucking love you back.

—[Rachel Haywire](https://twitter.com/RachelHaywire/status/398594911290671104)

  
> And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins

—"[The Gods of the Copybook Headings](http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_copybook.htm)" by Rudyard Kipling