Why all the quotes you may ask? I answer with a quote by Sir Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants." This was written in a letter to Robert Hooke after Hooke inquired as to how Newton was able to understand physical phenomenon so easily; it is assumed that the giants he refers to are Plato and Aristotle, among others. We do not possess the capacity (mental or otherwise) to learn everything about our place in this vast universe. But by instead relying on what others before us have learned, and moving forward, we can hope to improve our understanding and the human condition.
So here I have collected a few of my favorite quotes that I believe provide brilliant insight into several topics of interest to myself. Please, at my expense, enjoy your stroll amongst the giants.
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“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” ~Archimedes
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“To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.” ~Copernicus
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"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." ~Albert Einstein
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." ~Albert Einstein
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." ~Albert Einstein
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible." ~Albert Einstein
"Equations are more important to me, because politics are for the present, but an equation is something for eternity." ~Albert Einstein
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." ~Albert Einstein
"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be." ~Albert Einstein
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination." ~Albert Einstein
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"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted." ~John Lennon
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"If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants." ~Sir Isaac Newton
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"Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence." ~Edgar Allen Poe
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"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is." ~Thomas S. Szasz
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