bigdave314 , 23,
Male seeking Female,
Cambridge,
GB
Hobbies / Interests / ActivitiesTennis,
Squash,
Gym,
Waterpolo and swimming occasionally,
Reading,
Sleeping Mathematics,
Tennis,
Chess,
Strategy games,
Science,
Astronomy,
Theory of Everything
Political AffiliationConservative
Favorite MusicColdplay, Oasis, The Smiths, Daft Punk, SAW theme tune, Halo soundtrack(s), Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, most classical actually.
Favorite TV ShowsPrison break
Lost
24
Heroes
Damages
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Boston Legal
The Apprentice
Fringe
Alias
Skins
Jonathan Creek
University Challenge
fonejacker
Balls of Steel
Russell Brand
Favorite MoviesChildren of Men, Se7en, Death Race, Donnie Darko, 21, 28 days/weeks later, 300, Iron Man, 88 Minutes, Transformers, Collateral, Pulp fiction, Spirited Away, The Exorcist III, Kill Bill, Never Back Down, The Pianist, The boy in striped pyjamas, The Good, the bad, and the Ugly, Die Hard films, Bourne Films, Minority Report, Vanilla Sky, Cube, Ocean's Eleven, The Matrix films, Star Wars, SAW series, A Beautiful Mind, Good Will Hunting, Solaris, War of the Worlds, The Dark Knight
Favorite Books"The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins
"God is not Great" by Christopher Hitchens
"Sin Cities - Adventures of a sex reporter" by Ashely Hames
Favorite Quotes"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants"
-Isaac Newton
"There is no fate but what we make for ourselves"
- Sarah Connor
"If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same"
-If by Rudyard Kipling
"If english was good enough for jesus, then it's good enough for me" - Miriam A. Ferguson at a joint national committee on languages in Texas.
"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself"
-Faulkner
"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."
-Harriet Beecher Stowe
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe."
-Nietzsche
"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."
-Lao-tze
"...within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be."
-Neuroscientist Dr. R. Joseph.
"There is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings."
-Arthur Rubinstein.
"He walks amongst us, but he is not one of us." - Isabel, Lost
"I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it" - Albert Einstein
"The priests of the different religious sects...dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight, and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subdivison of the duperies on which they live" - Thomas Jefferson
"Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands" - Sean O'Casey
"Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man - living in the sky - who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time...But He loves you!" - George Carlin
"Why should a divine being with creation and eternity on his mind, care a fig for petty human malefactions? We humans give ourselves such airs, even aggrandizing our poky little "sins" to the level of cosmic significance!" - Richard Dawkins
"Where does it come from? This quest, this need to solve life's mysteries, when the simplest of questions can never be answered. Why are we here? What is the soul? Why do we dream? Perhaps we'd be better off not looking at all... not delving, not yearning. But that's not human nature. Not the human heart. That is not why we are here." - Mohinder Suresh