#goblinvalley — Public Fediverse posts
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Envy those who see beauty in everything in the world.
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One today is worth two tomorrows.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
There are two possible outcomes: If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.
-- Enrico Fermi⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #EnricoFermi #Discovery #Hypothesis #Measurement
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine.
-- Patti Smith (Gloria/Horses) -
If you want to learn about the health of a population, look at the air they breathe, the water they drink, and the places where they live.
-- Hippocrates -
Sometimes reading supplies the most cunning of all means of avoiding thought.
-- Joseph Epstein -
No serious person is not self-taught.
-- Christopher Hitchens (Article in The Nation on Robert Hughes) -
No serious person is not self-taught.
-- Christopher Hitchens (Article in The Nation on Robert Hughes) -
No serious person is not self-taught.
-- Christopher Hitchens (Article in The Nation on Robert Hughes) -
No serious person is not self-taught.
-- Christopher Hitchens (Article in The Nation on Robert Hughes) -
No serious person is not self-taught.
-- Christopher Hitchens (Article in The Nation on Robert Hughes) -
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
-- Andre Gide -
One shudders at the notion that the Internet could become the least common denominator -- where 'decent' is defined by the Americans, and 'politically correct' by the Chinese.
-- Jacques Gaillot -
One shudders at the notion that the Internet could become the least common denominator -- where 'decent' is defined by the Americans, and 'politically correct' by the Chinese.
-- Jacques Gaillot -
One shudders at the notion that the Internet could become the least common denominator -- where 'decent' is defined by the Americans, and 'politically correct' by the Chinese.
-- Jacques Gaillot -
One shudders at the notion that the Internet could become the least common denominator -- where 'decent' is defined by the Americans, and 'politically correct' by the Chinese.
-- Jacques Gaillot -
One shudders at the notion that the Internet could become the least common denominator -- where 'decent' is defined by the Americans, and 'politically correct' by the Chinese.
-- Jacques Gaillot -
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
-- Jean Giraudoux -
The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way."
-- Grace Hopper -
The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way."
-- Grace Hopper -
The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way."
-- Grace Hopper -
The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way."
-- Grace Hopper -
The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way."
-- Grace Hopper -
Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, "We've always done it this way." I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.
-- Grace Hopper -
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery we are trying to solve.
-- Max Planck (1858-1947) -
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
-- Alvin Toffler -
We Americans want contradictory things from the health-care system; we want unlimited medical care without unlimited spending.... We want limits for society as a whole, but not for any of the individuals in it.... We remain hostage to our own optimism that all things are possible. But choices exist, and, even if we evade them, they will not evade us.
-- Robert J. Samuelson (Newsweek) -
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
-- Saint Augustine -
Amateurs do what's interesting; professionals do what's crucial.
-- Peter Coffee (eWeek (Sept 2003)) -
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
-- Anatole France -
It is better to be vaguely right than exactly wrong.
-- Carveth Read -
It is not certain that everything is uncertain.
-- Blaise Pascal -
The mind commands the body and the body obeys. The mind commands itself and finds resistance.
-- Saint Augustine -
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
-- Douglas Adams -
I contend that the purpose of computers is human freedom.
-- Ted Nelson -
If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only one thing: you can become better yourself.
-- Leo Tolstoy -
Fortune favors the prepared mind.
-- Louis Pasteur⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #LouisPasteur #Chance #Fortune #Luck #Preparation
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Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
-- Andy Rooney