User:SpiralSource

"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper." - W. B. Yeats

"Novelty can always be condemned because attention can be drawn to its inherent incoherencies—incoherencies which, as I said, exist everywhere but which are unreflectingly accepted where nothing is unexpected and all is orthodox." - Donald G. MacRae, Forward to Class, Codes and Control

"Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art." - Chopin

"“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” - W.B. Yeats

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. We need only in cold blood ACT as if the thing in question were real, and keep acting as if it were real, and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real.” -William James

It is never too late to grow reasonable and wise; but if the insight comes late, it is always harder to bring it into play.

— Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

"Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility may rest assured that he seeks in vain." — Hermann von Helmholtz Academic Discourse (Heidelberg 1862)^[1]

"A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane." -J. Willard Gibbs

"Unless you have confidence in the ruler’s reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table, you may also be using the table to measure the ruler."

"Consider the gifts of mind: How many are there in the world stupid, frantic, and mad-and why are not you of this number?" - Introduction to the Devout Life

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