I wish they'd get away from IP-based specialty bricks and go back to making really interesting and innovative...

I wish they'd get away from IP-based specialty bricks and go back to making really interesting and innovative general-purpose bricks in generic sets.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/12/13/167055503/why-legos-are-so-expensive-and-so-popular

Ha ha....terrific.

Ha ha....terrific.

Originally shared by Beyond the Brick

LEGO The Battle of Helm's Deep.

This is absolutely brilliant!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WflM7m343k

Ho. Lee. Crap.

Ho. Lee. Crap.

This is fracking amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3PXYvuxivg

"Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment...

"Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought."
-- Ernst Mach (physicist, 1838-1916)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Mach

"To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery."

"To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery."
-- Abraham Pais (physicist, 1918-2000)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Pais

"First.

"First... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it."
-- William James (psychologist, 1842-1910)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James

"Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties."

"Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties."
-- Edmund Beecher Wilson (zoologist, 1856-1939)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Beecher_Wilson