"Think before you speak. Read before you think."
"Scientists are rarely to be counted among the fun people. Awkward at parties, shy with strangers, deficient in irony - they have had no choice but to turn their attention to the close study of everyday objects."
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Source: Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.96, Vintage
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