“Human experience, which is constantly contradicting theory, is the great test of truth. A system, built upon the discoveries of a great many minds, is always of more strength, than what is produced by the mere workings of any one mind, which, of itself, can do very little. There is not so poor a book in the world that would not be a prodigious effort were it wrought out entirely by a single mind, without the aid of prior investigators.” WorldWritingMindHumansLittlesBookCan DoPoorEffortTheoryDiscoveryBuiltTestsMereAidsGreat MenHuman ExperienceInvestigatorsContradictingProdigious Book:Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales Source: Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales
“Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!” NextCan DoStepsMereMortalsMovie SetsMere MortalsSamuel L Jackson Author:Ice Cube
“Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge, rather than mere ideas.” IdeasScienceCan DoOffersComputerMathematicsMereSolveExperimentsRoutesEquations Author:John Forbes Nash
“Music can be a distraction and an escape. Sometimes a welcome escape. You need it. But music can also serve a very important social function because music can do things that mere prose, mere ordinary political agitation can't do.” NeedsImportantSometimesPoliticalSocialCan DoOrdinaryFunctionMereWelcomeProseDistractionAgitation Author:Howard Zinn