Posted on July 12, 2020July 12, 2020 “All great truths begin as blasphemies.”—George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, 1856-1950
Posted on July 10, 2020July 10, 2020 “Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.”—Jules Henri Poincaré, French polymath, 1854-1912
Posted on July 9, 2020July 9, 2020 “The real problem is not whether machines can think, but whether men do.”—B.F. Skinner, American psychologist, 1904-1990
Posted on July 3, 2020July 3, 2020 “It is the flag just as much of the man who was naturalized yesterday as of the man whose people have been here many generations.”—Henry Cabot Lodge, American senator, 1850-1924
Posted on June 24, 2020June 24, 2020 “A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.”—Gustave Flaubert, French novelist, 1821-1880
Posted on June 23, 2020 “I am a rich man, as long as I don’t pay my creditors.”—Titus Maccius Plautus, Roman playwright, 254-184 BC
Posted on June 22, 2020 “Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.”—Plato, Greek philosopher, 428-348 BC
Posted on June 21, 2020 “It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.”—Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch philosopher, 1466-1536
Posted on June 20, 2020 “The first beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.”—Lucretius, Roman philosopher, 1st century BC
Posted on June 16, 2020 “The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.”—Oscar Wilde, Irish poet & playwright, 1854-1900
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