“They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time.” LongStillsFateBloodDepthBurdenImmortalityGesturesLong AgoPassed AwayMurmuring Book:Letters to a Young Poet Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not.” KnowsStillsSecretImmortalityImmortal Author:Elie Wiesel
“Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.” MenWorldWantArtStillsBookHappinessJoyLyingArtistTimeLostEnjoySinExcellencePermanentImmortalityCoveredButterflyFloodMonarchyVeniceSinkingGreat BookDamsFlorence Author:Romare Bearden
“The relationship between science and the humanities is two-way. Science changes our view of the world and our place in it. In the other direction, the humanities provide the store of ideas and images and language available to us in understanding the world. The exploding star of A.D. 1054, the Crab Nebula, was sighted and documented by the Chinese, but nowhere mentioned in the West, where the Aristotelian notion of the immortality of stars still held sway. We often do not see what we do not expect to see.” WorldWayStillsTwoIdeasHumanityLanguageStarsUnderstandingViewsWestNotionAvailableStoresChineseImmortalityTwo WaysExplodingCrabsUnderstanding The WorldNebula Book:Great Ideas in Physics Source: Great Ideas in Physics