# Quote of the Day **URL:** \ **Category:** Everything Else\ **Created:** [February 5, 2020, 4:06pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/quote-of-the-day/15155 "2020-02-05T16:06:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 42
**Author:** ![tmcqueen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/tmcqueen/32/80321_2.png) [@tmcqueen](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/tmcqueen)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 11:36am UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/quote-of-the-day/15155/852 "2022-07-21T11:36:32Z")
![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/psaudio/original/3X/f/d/fde1a30b74164c2e4031d8025f75bb832852668c.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![badbeef](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/badbeef/32/142_2.png) [@badbeef](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/badbeef)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 12:17pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/quote-of-the-day/15155/853 "2022-07-21T12:17:55Z")
“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.” - Flaubert ---
**Author:** ![Elk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/elk/32/1240_2.png) [@Elk](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/Elk)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 1:45pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/quote-of-the-day/15155/854 "2022-07-21T13:45:36Z")
A wonderful quote! ---
**Author:** ![badbeef](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/badbeef/32/142_2.png) [@badbeef](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/badbeef)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/quote-of-the-day/15155/855 "2022-07-21T14:14:07Z")
Isn’t it? Came across it again rereading Carl Sagan’s “Contact”. I know I read the quote in college (likely in French) because it is from Madame Bovary. The actual quote is: “La parole humaine est comme un chaudron fêlé où nous battons des mélodies à faire danser les ours, quand on voudrait attendrir les étoiles." I wanted to look it up since I’ve read different translations of the latter half. Note that in French the bit after the comma is much shorter, and there is no mention of making music. “Attendrir” by itself means “to touch”, so you could translate it as “to touch the stars”, which is poetic as it is. “Voudrait attendrir” returns a web translation of “would like to tenderize”…so = melt. The accepted translation extends the musical metaphor he’s started with the kettle and bears. Beef with mallet in hand: "Je voudrais attendrir this here steak"🤠 (apologies for the Forum abuse)🙏🏻 ---
**Author:** ![badbeef](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/badbeef/32/142_2.png) [@badbeef](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/badbeef)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 12:16pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/quote-of-the-day/15155/856 "2022-07-24T12:16:05Z")
“All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have.” - Albert Einstein ---
**Author:** ![badbeef](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/badbeef/32/142_2.png) [@badbeef](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/badbeef)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 2:27pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/quote-of-the-day/15155/857 "2022-07-25T14:27:46Z")
Well, this is getting monotonous being the only poster here at the moment, but I keep seeing quoteable things from Carl. Carl Sagan, writing in 1996. Apologies for the length. Excerpts from “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as A Candle in the Dark”, his takedown of pseudo-science and call for skepticism and critical thinking. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/psaudio/original/3X/d/1/d1149cd512de72009cdb429e0a059fe38ea3b728.jpeg) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/psaudio/original/3X/c/a/ca59764dcd9dd898149c8c3d48f75db9700fbd56.jpeg) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/psaudio/original/3X/3/4/34e95ea0a4322e14d5099729ac56b9b7707a61d6.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![badbeef](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/badbeef/32/142_2.png) [@badbeef](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/badbeef)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 2:30pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/quote-of-the-day/15155/858 "2022-07-25T14:30:59Z")
![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/psaudio/original/3X/e/4/e4fd75450504e7cac2b107822bdfef311a038b8c.jpeg) Good advice for us audiophiles🤠 ---
**Author:** ![hthaller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3d9bf3/32.png) [@hthaller](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/hthaller)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 9:49pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/quote-of-the-day/15155/859 "2022-07-25T21:49:26Z")
> [@badbeef](#): > > I keep seeing quoteable things from Carl. Boiled down to it’s essence by Sowell: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/psaudio/original/3X/8/9/89bbb6631fe53a98bb387470b36c7d2723f26fb1.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Elk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/elk/32/1240_2.png) [@Elk](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/Elk)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 10:14pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/quote-of-the-day/15155/860 "2022-07-25T22:14:37Z")
You do not even hurt its feelings. ---
**Author:** ![Baldy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/baldy/32/223847_2.png) [@Baldy](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/Baldy)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 10:17pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/quote-of-the-day/15155/861 "2022-07-25T22:17:57Z")
Thats a couple of good ones. ---
**Author:** ![badbeef](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/badbeef/32/142_2.png) [@badbeef](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/badbeef)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 10:22pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/quote-of-the-day/15155/862 "2022-07-25T22:22:37Z")
Prescient. ---
**Author:** ![scotte1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/scotte1/32/147_2.png) [@scotte1](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/scotte1)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 10:23pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/quote-of-the-day/15155/863 "2022-07-25T22:23:25Z")
Uh huh… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![scotte1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/scotte1/32/147_2.png) [@scotte1](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/scotte1)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 10:30pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/quote-of-the-day/15155/864 "2022-07-25T22:30:01Z")
Attributed to Arthur C. Clarke: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” ---
**Author:** ![Baldy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/baldy/32/223847_2.png) [@Baldy](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/Baldy)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 10:40pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/quote-of-the-day/15155/865 "2022-07-25T22:40:48Z")
Imagine having a Bic lighter a couple hundred years ago. ---
**Author:** ![scotte1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/scotte1/32/147_2.png) [@scotte1](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/scotte1)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 11:06pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/quote-of-the-day/15155/866 "2022-07-25T23:06:16Z")
Exactly; or a flashlight during the middle ages… ---
**Author:** ![badbeef](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/badbeef/32/142_2.png) [@badbeef](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/badbeef)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 11:56pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/quote-of-the-day/15155/867 "2022-07-25T23:56:04Z")
I’ve always wanted to play Mozart a recording of his music on a good stereo. Wonder what he would think. ---
**Author:** ![RonP](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/ronp/32/213555_2.png) [@RonP](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/RonP)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2022, 11:38am UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/quote-of-the-day/15155/868 "2022-07-26T11:38:38Z")
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. … Thomas Sowell ---
**Author:** ![hthaller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3d9bf3/32.png) [@hthaller](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/hthaller)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2022, 2:37pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/quote-of-the-day/15155/869 "2022-07-26T14:37:53Z")
“I know nothing!” Sgt. Schultz ---
**Author:** ![Vmax](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/vmax/32/19896_2.png) [@Vmax](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/Vmax)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2022, 5:07pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/quote-of-the-day/15155/870 "2022-07-26T17:07:20Z")
He’d say that Piano sounds little like the one I wrote that piece to be played on for starters. ---
**Author:** ![badbeef](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.psaudio.com/badbeef/32/142_2.png) [@badbeef](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/badbeef)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2022, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/quote-of-the-day/15155/871 "2022-07-26T17:15:20Z")
That’s for sure 😝. Probably wouldn’t like the picture of the temperament either​:man\_shrugging:t2: EDIT: now that I’m not on my phone: “pitch or the” not “picture of the”. Can’t recall what Concert Pitch was popular in his day. May not have been A440. @Elk ? And piano vs. pianoforte, etc. tuning? Fuggettaboutit. But just would love to see this brilliant visionary musician with a direct line to the Infinite react to a fully realized version of one of his pieces Played Back to him - bearing in mind that recording was a century or so in the Future. No one ever heard his music in his time except from a live group/human singer/player. [Previous page](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/quote-of-the-day/15155.md?page=41) [Next page](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/quote-of-the-day/15155.md?page=43)