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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-07-27 · 21:13 UTC

DEMEA: No one has ever plotted out his life’s plan so successfully that he never faces
   New challenges and discoveries brought about by circumstances, the passing of time,
   Or experience itself. Inevitably, you discover you don’t know what you thought you did,
   And the principles we first formed don’t hold up in the face of everyday practice.

[Nunquam ita quisquam bene subducta ratione ad vitam fuit
Quia res, Ætas usus semper aliquid apportet novi
Aliquid moneat, ut illa, quæ te scire credas, nescias
Et, quæ tibi putaris prima, in experiundo ut repudies.]

Terence (186?-159 BC) African-Roman dramatist [Publius Terentius Afer]
Adelphoe [Adelphoi; Adelphi; The Brothers], Act 5, sc. 4, l. 855ff (160 BC) [tr. Christenson (2010), Sc. 22]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/terence/85152/

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IRAP @[email protected] · 2024-12-10 · 12:00 UTC

[Joyeux anniversaire, #XMMNewton ! 🥂 🎉 ] 25 ans. Cela fait 25 ans que l' #Observatoire XMM-Newton de l' European Space Agency - ESA lancé par une fusée #Ariane5 scrute notre #Univers dans le domaine des rayons X.

Récemment, les données acquises par cet observatoire ont permis de comprendre l'origine des #aurores X aux pôles magnétiques de #Jupiter, de contraindre les #théories sur l'intérieur des étoiles à #neutrons, de révéler de gigantesques #éruptions en périphérie d'un #TrouNoir supermassif, etc : https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/XMM-Newton/XMM-Newton_celebrates_25_years_of_breakthroughs