A Senser Sensing
perceiving thinking desiring feeling
Saturday 31 August 2019
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilise the mind as a steady purpose
— a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Friday 30 August 2019
Thursday 29 August 2019
Where all is but dream,
reasoning and arguments are of no use,
truth and knowledge nothing.
Wednesday 28 August 2019
Tuesday 27 August 2019
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous,
the sensible man hardly anything.
Monday 26 August 2019
Sunday 25 August 2019
We ought,
in every instance,
to submit our reasoning
to the test of experiment,
and never to search for truth
but by the natural road
of experiment and observation.
Saturday 24 August 2019
Friday 23 August 2019
No fine work can be done
without concentration
and self-sacrifice
and toil
and doubt.
Thursday 22 August 2019
Wednesday 21 August 2019
Scientists have to have a metaphor.
All scientists start with imagination.
Tuesday 20 August 2019
Monday 19 August 2019
Works of art make rules;
rules do not make works of art.
Sunday 18 August 2019
Saturday 17 August 2019
We live on a placid island of ignorance
in the midst of black seas of infinity.
Friday 16 August 2019
Thursday 15 August 2019
We are here to laugh at the odds
and live our lives so well
that Death will tremble to take us.
Wednesday 14 August 2019
Tuesday 13 August 2019
All men who have turned out worth anything
have had the chief hand
in their own education.
Monday 12 August 2019
Sunday 11 August 2019
The scientist only imposes two things,
namely truth and sincerity,
imposes them upon himself
and upon other scientists.
Saturday 10 August 2019
Friday 9 August 2019
In science one tries to tell people,
in such a way as to be understood by everyone,
something that no one ever knew before.
But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
Thursday 8 August 2019
Wednesday 7 August 2019
Just as our eyes need light in order to see,
our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Tuesday 6 August 2019
Monday 5 August 2019
In a drama of the highest order
there is little food for censure or hatred;
it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
Sunday 4 August 2019
Saturday 3 August 2019
Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.
Friday 2 August 2019
Thursday 1 August 2019
It is better to fail in originality
than to succeed in imitation.
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