It doesn’t matter WHERE one goes, but HOW one goes.
– Author, Void of Inspiration
But even if in the end this longstanding pursuit of extra dimensions proves to have been a grand illusion, generations of dreamers have been inspired by it to keep on dreaming, and generations of seekers to keep on seeking. We have learned and will in the process continue to learn more about nature and our own place within the cosmos. And I believe one could make a good argument that such efforts make life worthwhile.
– Lawrence M. Krauss, Hiding in the Mirror
Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park.
– Donella Meadows
It is more reliable to judge people by analyzing their abilities than by glancing at the scoreboard. Or as Bernoulli put it, “One should not appraise human action on the basis of its results.”
– Leonard Mlodinow, The Drunkard’s Walk – How Randomness Rules Our Lives
(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands
– E. E. Cummings, somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
Zeno’s conclusion: you can never get anywhere.
– Leonard Mlodinow, The Drunkard’s Walk – How Randomness Rules Our Lives
My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful, but when I had to choose one or the other, I chose the beautiful.
– Hermann Weyl
Information that is not there yet nevertheless is… This applies to any correspondence, of course. Before the words are written, a considerable amount of mental work takes place. Not all of it is present in the words, yet it is so nevertheless. The actual information in the correspondence at face value refers to a mass of information that is merely not present.
– Tor Norretranders, The User Illusion