November 2008
17 posts
“Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they...”
– Nikola Tesla, Modern Mechanics and Inventions
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“Some men see things as they are and say why - I dream things that never were and...”
– George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
“For me there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the...”
– Pamela Lyndon Travers, Quoted in “Hail, Mary!” in The Independent (19 September 2004)
“The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need...”
– Michel Foucault, History of Sexuality
“Try to put well in practice what you already know; and in so doing, you will in...”
– Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern (1908) by Tryon Edwards, p. 131.
“Vocatus atque non vocatus, Deus aderit.”
– Carl Gustav Jung’s Epitaph
“It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must...”
– Karl Popper, On Freedom
“Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.”
– Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations
