Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood.

October 25, 2009
2:52 pm
Posted in: Personal

Best fortune cookie message ever. My wife said “if yours is better, we’re trading” before we opened them. “Nope, this one is definitely mine” I said when I looked at it. “Yep, that’s you alright.”

Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood. Lucky Numbers 23, 330, 12, 7, 4, 19

That this sage ode to science is printed a millimeter away from a list of “lucky numbers” is very amusing to me.

Update: Rob finds Marie Curie to be the source of the quote, which is, in full: “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

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