Date: October 10, 1869
"Recitations alone readily degenerate into dusty repetitions, and lectures alone are too often a useless expenditure of force. The lecturer pumps laboriously into sieves. The water may be wholesome, but it runs through."
preview | full record— Eliot, Charles William (1834-1926)
Date: May 3, 2012
"A brain is not a computer. We are not blank hard drives waiting to be filled with data."
preview | full record— Brooks, David (b. 1961)
Date: August, 21, 2015
"But this summer, 'The New Yorker' published a piece that wrapped old news in new terror. And what had been buried in the recesses of Northwestern minds suddenly flared."
preview | full record— Egan, Timothy (b. 1954)
Date: December 30, 2015
"All those rooms were gathered in my own brain, which looked exactly like Hasanaj’s, a wet, gleaming, walnutlike lump, composed of 100 billion brain cells so tiny and so myriad they could only be compared to the stars of a galaxy."
preview | full record— Knausgaard, Karl Ove (b. 1968)
Date: January 29, 2020
"I would argue that his [Donald Trump's] mind, while a lot of things, including a landfill for the rancid refuse of pure appetite, is not exactly intricate."
preview | full record— Pierce, Charles P. (b. 1953)