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“Gold lends a touch of beauty even to the ugly.”

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Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux was a prominent French poet of the 17th century, known for his classical poetry and literary criticism. His works emphasized order, rules, and reason, and had a profound impact on subsequent literary development. more

“We shall do better to abandon the whole attempt to learn the truthunless we can trust to the human mind's having such a powerof guessing right that before very many hypotheses shall have been tried, intelligent guessing may be expected to lead us to one which will support all tests, leaving the vast majority of possible hypotheses unexamined.”

Mind Humans May Has Beens Whole Science Support Tests Intelligent Majority Leaving Expected Abandon Human Mind Hypothesis Guessing

Author:Charles Sanders Peirce

“This branch of mathematics [Probability] is the only one, I believe, in which good writers frequently get results which are entirely erroneous.”

Believe I Believe Results Mathematics I Believe In Branches Probability Good Writers

Author:Charles Sanders Peirce

“Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence?”

Moving Silence Beauty Cherish Silence Is

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“One of the functions of thought is to be occupied all the time with something. Most of us want to have our minds continually occupied so that we are prevented from seeing ourselves as we actually are. We are afraid to be empty. We are afraid to look at our fears.”

Want Mind Looks Time Fear Seeing Empty Function Emptiness

Book:On Fear

Source: On Fear

“Fear is the process of the mind in the struggle of becoming. In becoming good there is the fear of evil; in becoming complete, there is the fear of loneliness.”

Mind Evil Process Struggle Loneliness Becoming

Book:Commentaries on Living 2

Source: Commentaries on Living 2

“The information superhighway is a revolution that in years to come will transcend newspapers, radio, and television as an information source. Therefore, I think this is the time to put some restrictions on it.”

Thinking Years Information Television Source Revolution Speech Radio Newspapers Freedom Of Speech Restriction Information Superhighway

Author:J. James Exon

“Our American past always speaks to us with two voices: the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him? Citizens ask, What do they mean to us? Historians are trained to seek the original meaning; all of us want to know the present meaning.”

Knows Want Mean Two Different Wisdom America Past Reading Asks Speak Voice Knowledge Creativity History Citizens Asking Originals Quitting Historian Monarchy

Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

“. . . the messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life.”

May Mean Messiness

Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

“My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.”

Ifs Firsts May I Can Purpose Method Errors Principal Heresy Wheat

Author:Isaac Newton

“Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.”

Way Body Force Sides Centripetal Force

Book:The Principia: The Authoritative Translation: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

Source: The Principia: The Authoritative Translation: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

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