“All that can be done for you is nothing to what you can do for yourself.” Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the abyss? I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos.” IfsThinkingWorldMomentsHandsThis WorldLiftsIntimateAbyssAstonishmentYeast Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The end of being is to know; and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.” IfsThinkingKnowsEndsAction Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I will no longer confer, differ, refer, defer, prefer, or suffer. I renounce the whole tribe of fero. I embrace absolute life.” ThinkingWholeSufferingAbsolutesEmbraceTribesRenounce Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt.” ThinkingShouldRespectDirtMonkeysRespectable Author:Thomas Huxley
“Cherish [Science], venerate her, follow her methods faithfully ... and the future of this people will be greater than the past.” PeopleThinkingPastGreaterMethodCherish Author:Thomas Huxley
“No one who has lived in the world as long as you & I have, can entertain the pious delusion that it is engineered upon principles of benevolence... the cosmos remains always beautiful and profoundly interesting in every corner-and if I had as many lives as a cat I would leave no corner unexplored.” IfsThinkingWorldLongBeautifulInterestingPrinciplesCatRemainsCornersCosmosDelusionBenevolencePiousUnexplored Author:Thomas Huxley
“If this is preparation for life, where in the world, where in the relationship with our colleagues, where in the industrial domain, where ever again, anywhere in life, is a person given this curious sequence of prepared talks and prepared questions, questions to which the answers are known?” IfsThinkingWorldPersonsLife IsGivenAnswersKnownPreparedCuriousPreparationColleaguesDomainSequence Author:Edwin Land
“Why do I want to believe what I believe?... Science, to put it somewhat vulgarly, is a technique to keep yourself from kidding yourself.” ThinkingWantBelieveI BelieveTechniqueKidding Yourself Author:Edwin Land
“...from this day forward until the day you are buried, do two things each day. First, master a difficult old insight, and second, add some new piece of knowledge to the world each day.” ThinkingWorldFirstsTwoDifficultPiecesMastersAddInsightTwo ThingsEach DayThis DayBuried Author:Edwin Land
“I should never stand alone in this desert world, but that manna would drop from heaven, if I would but rise with every rising sun to gather it.” IfsThinkingWorldShouldHeavenSunDesertRisingStand Alone Author:Margaret Fuller