A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them.
Interpretation
The opinions of many do not diminish your own experiences or truths.
This quote emphasizes the idea that reality is subjective; even if the majority dismisses something as untrue, such as the grandeur of mountains, it does not affect those who have personally experienced or understood its reality. It suggests the importance of personal perspective and experience over public opinion.
In practice
This quote could be used in a motivational speech about believing in oneself despite criticism.
I think the really cool and compelling thing about math and physics is that it opens up entry to all these hypotheticals - or at least, it gives you the language to talk about them. But at the same time, if a scenario is completely disconnected from reality, it's not all that interesting.
One of the nice things about the Internet is you can do a comic that's just for Ph.D. students, or for truck drivers, and you get to reach all of them without having to satisfy the other 99%.
News networks giving a greater voice to viewers because the social web is so popular are like a chef on the Titanic who, seeing the looming iceberg and fleeing customers, figures ice is the future and starts making snow cones.
Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.
Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously.
I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.
You can pray while you work. Work doesn't stop prayer and prayer doesn't stop work. It requires only that small raising of the mind to him: I love you God, I trust you, I believe in you, I need you now. Small things like that. They are wonderful prayers.
Will God ever ask you to do something you are not able to do? The answer is yes--all the time! It must be that way, for God's glory and kingdom. If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit within us, God gets the glory. He wants to reveal Himself to a watching world.
Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.
I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.
The only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.
A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
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