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Posted on November 18, 2018November 18, 2018

“Nature is wont to hide herself.”—Heraclitus, Greek philosopher, 535-475 BC

Posted on November 11, 2018November 11, 2018

“Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.”—Johann Gauss, German mathematician, 1777-1855

Posted on October 30, 2018June 21, 2020

“The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly.”—Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch scholar, 1466-1536

Posted on October 29, 2018

“Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.”—Francis Bacon, English philosopher, 1561-1626

Posted on October 28, 2018October 28, 2018

“One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.”—A.L. Rowse, British historian, 1903-1997

Posted on October 3, 2018

“The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American jurist, 1841-1935

Posted on October 1, 2018October 1, 2018

“To the man seeking power the poorest man is the most useful.”—Sallust, Roman historian, 86-35 BC

Posted on September 29, 2018September 29, 2018

“Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.”—Jonathan Swift, Irish essayist, 1667-1745

Posted on September 28, 2018September 28, 2018

“Great artists have no country.”—Alfred De Musset, French dramatist, 1810-1857

Posted on September 26, 2018September 26, 2018

“An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.”—Werner Heisenberg, German theoretical physicist, 1901-1976

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