I was just thinking how unfortunate it'd be to be a fat girl named Candy.
The new frontiers to be conquered are mainly in the convolutions of the cortex.
Honor is decency without vanity.
It is impossible to decide whether a particular detail of the Pythagorean universe was the work of the master, or filled in by a pupil a remark which equally applies to Leonardo or Michelangelo. But there can be no doubt that the basic features were conceived by a single mind; that Pythagoras of Samos was both the founder of a new religious philosophy, and the founder of Science, as the word is understood today.
Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which
The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred.
Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground.
Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.