“More attention to the History of Science is needed, as much by scientists as by historians, and especially by biologists, and this should mean a deliberate attempt to understand the thoughts of the great masters of the past, to see in what circumstances or intellectual milieu their ideas were formed, where they took the wrong turning or stopped short on the right track.” ShouldMeanIdeasPastAttentionMastersNeededCircumstancesIntellectualScientistTrackHistorianDeliberateBiologistHistory Of ScienceRight TrackMilieuWrong Turn Author:Ronald Fisher
“Under no circumstances will any supporter try to tell me what I should do. That is why I have the track record that I have got.” ShouldTryingRecordsCircumstancesTrackSupporterTrack Record Author:Billy Davies
“Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is, we lose track of the Original Mind and are tormented all the time by the threatening objective world, regarding it as good or bad, true or false, agreeable or disagreeable. We are thus slaves of things and circumstances.” WorldMindSelfRunningPastTimeLosesKnowingObjectsCircumstancesOriginalsSlaveTrackObjectivesNot KnowingThreateningDisagreeableTrue Or False Book:Manual of Zen Buddhism Source: Manual of Zen Buddhism
“Your relationship is not supposed to be perfect all the time, your business is not supposed to do well all the time, your soufflés are not supposed to raise perfectly all the time. Everything is designed to go wrong so that you can gain the skills of rediscovering your tracks, even in difficult or frightening circumstances. Especially in difficult and frightening circumstances.” WellsDifficultPerfectCircumstancesSkillsGainsRaisesTrackUpliftingSupposed To BeWrongOur RelationshipFrighteningGiving Up Is Not An OptionNever SurrenderNot Being PerfectRediscovery Author:Martha Beck