“What we need is a treasure house, not of knowledge, but of ignorance. Something that gives not answers but questions. Something that shines light, not on already garish facts, but into the dark, damp corners of ignorance. And” — John Lloyd Copy Share Image
“James Joyce married a woman named Nora Barnacle. She once said to him, ‘Why don’t you write books people can read?” — John Lloyd Copy Share
“Tour de France riders need to eat the equivalent of 27 cheeseburgers a day.” — John Lloyd Copy Share
“There is no known scientific way of predicting earthquakes. The most reliable method is to count the number of missing cats in the local… — John Lloyd Copy Share
Jokes are a lot about meaning. I think if we understand what jokes mean and why they work, we'd understand everything else. Genuinely I… — John Lloyd Copy Share
“About 200,000 academic journals are published in English each year. The average number of readers per article is five. The average numbers of… — John Lloyd Copy Share
“When John Hetherington ventured out in public wearing the first top hat, it was considered so shocking that children screamed, women fainted, and a… — John Lloyd Copy Share
“Robert Burns was never called Rabbie or Robbie—though he did occasionally call himself Spunkie.” — John Lloyd Copy Share
The universe is fractal. The closer you look at it, the more interesting it becomes. — John Lloyd Copy Share
“British spies stopped using semen as invisible ink because it began to smell if it wasn’t fresh.” — John Lloyd Copy Share
“Kummerspeck (“grief bacon”) is German for the weight put on from eating too much when feeling sorry for yourself.” — John Lloyd Copy Share
