Quotes

Quotes

Remember that you will spend most of your life dealing, not with a group of people desperate for mutual reassurance, but nature, on her own terms. Nature cares only about what you can do, not what you say you can do.             

Paul Lutus


When looking for answers, leave society behind, embrace the loneliness of non-tangibility.


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Most human deeds are an insult to nature.

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Sensory perception is the drug of almost every living creature.

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Only ignorant people hold on to life. For those who have true understanding of nature, existence as we experience it, is just a well disguised trial.

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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Carl Sagan


 Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,

  Stains the white radiance of Eternity,

Until Death tramples it to fragments.

 Percy Bysshe Shelley


Chacun se dit ami, mais fou qui s'y repose: rien n'est plus commun que le nom, rien n'est plus rare que la chose.

Jean de La Fontaine


Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

孔子  (Kong Qiu / Confucius)


                                                            Ego fere nihil.                                                             

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With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

Siddhārtha Gautama (सिद्धार्थ गौतम Buddha)


The prize (Fields Medal) was completely irrelevant for me. Everybody understood that if the proof is correct, then no other recognition is needed.

Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman

                                      And the human race was puffed up with pride...but nature prevails.                                                                                                                                                                                             Christiaan Robert Thonus

Never so much knowledge, never so much stupidity.

Christiaan Robert Thonus

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