“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
Not Albert Einstein. As he is a quotation magnet it has stuck to him quite often, but apparently it was actually sociology professor William Bruce Cameron in 1963 (see https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/26/everything-counts-einstein/). Would it be any more clever if it had been Einstein?
“A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure: It is exquisite and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”
Oscar Wilde quoted in Filip Palda The History of Tobacco Regulation: Forward to the Past
In my latest National Post column I ask what to do if you think Donald Trump has to go but Joe Biden’s not well enough to serve a term as President.
In my latest Epoch Times column I present the historical apology no Canadian prime minister should ever have to make for a predecessor’s failure to stand up for freedom for the people of Hong Kong.
“the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.”
“Eric Temple Bell, the mathematician” quoted in National Review June 7, 1993
In my latest National Post column I say we seem to have lost sight of what we’re trying to do on the COVID-19 pandemic, with potentially ominous consequences.