If wool shrinks when you wash it, why don't sheep get smaller when it rains?
It seems that the Parisian Oulipo group has recently constructed a matrix of all possible murder-story situations and has found that there is still to be written a book in which the murderer is the re...
I'm a kindhearted but highly competitive pragmatist. When I seek to win something, I always make certain it's never at the expense of anything more serious than the inadequate efforts of others.
Paradoxes are less paradoxical in their reference to truth than most of the most plausible axioms.
It's funny how the ugly duckling always has so many beautiful things to teach us.
A deeper thought on the surface is exactly the paradox we need.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Intelligence is to spot paradoxes. Wisdom is to live by them.
Mike did not seem to grasp the idea of Creation itself. Well, Jubal wasn't sure that he did, either--he had long ago made a pact with himself to postulate a Created Universe on even-numbered days, a t...
We are Surrounded by Paradoxes and Questions!