Budapest to Amsterdam (via, er, Paris)

Perhaps more on the recent St Valentine's, anniversary, birthday trip to Paris and Amsterdam another time

[Summary: Paris - whirlwind tour of les musees Picasso & Rodin, the Louvre, Le Jeu de Paume, Sacre Coeur, Notre Dame, Ile St Louis, Arc de Triomphe, Champs Elysees, Place de la Concorde, le Jardin des Tuileries, Place Vendome, les Invalides, etc. etc. so rather a lot to catch up on]

Until then, just an insight acquired in Amsterdam to share...

A Theory of Everything Should Include Biscuits.

...which I hope is uncontroversial yet teasingly provocative

Sayings...

True, False, Neither and Both...

If I knew then what I know now, I've been wasting my time.

It seems incomprehensible to me that the universe should be incomprehensible; we only understand the universe because it is understandable.

[The most incomprehensible fact about the universe is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein, quoted in Des MacHale, Wisdom London, 2002]

There is only one universal, eternal truth, which is that there isn't one.

I am always right - clearly you don't understand your own question.

Democracy is not an excuse for the collective abnegation of responsibility.

My bet is on entropy.

I have only one thing to say to god... Just read me the instructions!

If you have no curiosity you will not question. If you do not question you must follow blindly. If you follow blindly you cannot learn, and if you do not learn you cannot choose. To forego choice is to scorn the greatest gift, and scorn for generosity is an insult to the giver.