Kindness Quote by John Brockman

The mediocrity principle simply states that you aren't special. The universe does not revolve around you; this planet isn't privileged in any unique way;…

— PZ Myers

When I imagine God creating each one of us and planting a purpose deep in our hearts, I never imagine that purpose being mediocrity.

— Katie Davis

The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.

— Norman Mailer

There is no greater path to mediocrity in life than trying to be realistic.

— Sean Plott

Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.

— Bill Nye

“You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder, and sieve it through the finest sieve, and then…

— Terry Pratchett

“That is the most basic law of the Universe—cause and effect. If our actions are the result of our intentions to do good, to…

— Wu Wei

“Mediocrity is a talent for mediocrity.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

Mediocrity is beneath a brave soul.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social order should rest only…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

There is nothing which Nature so clearly reveals, and upon which science so strongly insists, as the universal reign of law, absolute, universal, invariable…

— Joseph LeConte

As Aristotle wrote a long, long time ago, and I'm paraphrasing here, the goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something…

— Georges St-Pierre