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“Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.”

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Horace, a renowned Roman poet, is celebrated for his elegant Latin style and profound philosophical thoughts. His works span a variety of genres, from satire to odes, and have had a profound impact on literature throughout history. more

“BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were born from the egg. Pallas came out of a skull. Galatea was once a block of stone. Peresilis, who wrote in the tenth century, avers that he grew up out of the ground where a priest had spilled holy water. It is known that Arimaxus was derived from a hole in the earth, made by a stroke of lightning. Leucomedon was the son of a cavern in Mount Etna, and I have myself seen a man come out of a wine cellar.”

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Roentgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new.”

People Enough Science Fall Saws Birth Happenings Ordinary Mathematics Apples Something New Engineering Plates Translate Fog Newton Kettles Penicillin James Watt

Author:Alexander Fleming

“I am terribly proud of-I was born in Cambridge in 1952 and my initials are DNA!”

Born Proud Birth Dna Initials Cambridge

Book:The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

Source: The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham, in Lincolnshire, on Christmas Day, 1642: a weakly and diminutive infant, of whom it is related that, at his birth, he might have found room in a quart mug. He died on March the 20th, 1727, after more than eighty-four years of more than average bodily health and vigour; it is a proper pendant to the story of the quart mug to state that he never lost more than one of his second teeth.”

Years States Stories Might Found Lost Born Rooms Four Birth Died Average Teeth Related March Four Years Infant Eighty Newton Christmas Day Isaac Mug Pendants

Author:Augustus De Morgan

“Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of Nature; and from the tiny cell where he lodges, to wit the Universe, weigh at their true worth earth, kingdoms, towns, himself. What is a man face to face with infinity?”

Men Reality Earth Faces Universe Lost Birth Towns Regard Corners Tiny Wit Kingdoms Cells Infinity Face To Face Lodges True Worth

Book:Pensées

Source: Pensées

“The way in which the persecution of Galileo has been remembered is a tribute to the quiet commencement of the most intimate change in outlook which the human race had yet encountered. Since a babe was born in a manger, it may be doubted whether so great a thing has happened with so little stir”

Way Humans May Littles Has Beens Born Race Happened Birth Quiet Remembered Human Race Intimate Persecution Outlook Tribute Babe Doubted Commencement

Book:Science and the Modern World

Source: Science and the Modern World

“Let it [racism] be a problem to someone else... Let it drag them down. Don't use it as an excuse for your own shortcomings.”

Men Use Problem Black Racism Excuse Uplifting Drag Shortcomings

Author:Colin Powell

“There is always room for coincidence.”

Rooms Coincidence

Author:Noto

“It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.”

Matter Choices Decision Impossible Logic Complexes Track Decision Making Coincidence

Author:Noto

“The problem of synchronicity has puzzled me for a long time, ever since the middle twenties, when I was investigating the phenomena of the collective unconscious and kept on coming across connections which I simply could not explain as chance groupings or "runs." What I found were "coincidences" which were connected so meaningfully that their "chance" concurrence would represent a degree of improbability that would have to be expressed by an astronomical figure.”

Source: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche

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