“An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.” LawTraditionAncientProfitIdiotSooner Or LaterBlundersAthens Author:Aristophanes
“Most students of nature sooner or later pass through a process of writing off a large percentage of their supposed capital of knowledge as a merely illusory asset. As we trace more accurately certain familiar sequences of phenomena we begin to realize how closely these sequences, or laws , as we call them, are hemmed round by still other laws of which we can form no notion. With myself this writing off of illusory assets has gone rather far and the cobweb of supposed knowledge has been pinched (as some one has phrased) into a particularly small pill.” WritingHas BeensStillsFormLawCertainProcessRealizingGoneStudentsNotionRoundsFamiliarPhenomenonAssetsSooner Or LaterPillsSequencePercentagesIllusoryCobwebs Book:Presidential Addresses to the Society for Psychical Research, 1882-1911 Source: Presidential Addresses to the Society for Psychical Research, 1882-1911
“Trees and flowers were often more meaningful to me than people. They always helped me, consoled me, giving the soul a chance to believe once more than the world was beautiful and sensible, that the mad absurdities and cruelties of men were against the laws of Nature and the Universal Mind; that sooner or later violence would suffer utter defeat on this Earth. No words collected in books were more effectively convincing to me than foliage, clouds, rippling waters, rain.” PeopleMenWorldGivingMindBelieveBookSoulEarthBeautifulLawSufferingWaterNatureChanceViolenceTreeFlowerRainUniversalMadDefeatCloudsMeaningfulCrueltySensibleSooner Or LaterAbsurdityConvincingLaws Of NatureFoliage Author:Svetlana Alliluyeva
“a man can break God's laws and be forgiven. That's what they teach us. But when he breaks Nature's laws, there's no forgiveness - and there's no escape. Sooner or later he pays the penalty, or his children pay it - or his children's children. It doesn't matter much. It must be paid.” MenChildrenMatterEarthLawNaturePayTeachBreakEnvironmentPaidSooner Or LaterPenaltiesForgivenNo Forgiveness Book:The Stone Field Source: The Stone Field