“"You know that it is quite preposterous of you to chase rainbows," said the sane person to the poet. "Yet it would be rather beautiful if I did one day manage to catch one," mused the poet.” IfsKnowsPersonsSaidWould BeBeautifulSciencePoetOne DayManageSaneRainbow Book:Little Stories Source: Little Stories
“Suppose someone follows the series "1,3,5,7, ..", and in writing the series 2x+1; and he asked himself "But am I always doing the same thing, or something different every time?" If from one day to the next someone promises: "Tomorrow I will give up smoking", does he say the same thing every day, or every day something different?” IfsGivingWritingDoeDifferentScienceNextTomorrowPromiseOne DayGiving UpMathematicsSeriesSmokingGiving Up Smoking Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein
“One day, when I was doing well in class and had finished my lessons, I was sitting there trying to analyze the game of tic-tac-toe... The teacher came along and snatched my papers on which I had been doodling... She did not realize that analyzing tic-tac-toe can lead into dozens of non-trivial mathematical questions.” TryingWellsScienceGamesRealizingClassTeacherLessonsOne DayPaperSittingMathematicsFinishedMathematicalDozenToesPapersAnalyzingTicsDoodlingTic Tacs Author:Martin Gardner
“Whether we like it or not, one day science will take God from us! This will be especially a great destruction for the weak minds!” MindScienceOne DayWeakDestructionWeak Minds Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.” TruthSciencePerspectiveFutureOne DayScientistErrorsCurrentsIntuitionMisunderstandingGrossProphetic Book:The substance of man Source: The substance of man