“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.” IfsHappensActionNextWomenKnowledgeMorningLaughingDrinkBedConsequenceStonesDareDoomedRuinedForesight Author:Margaret Atwood
“I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.” KnowsMenScienceTurnsKnownKnowledgeStonesGoldPhilosopherPursuitPoor Richard Book:The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“Knowledge without devotion is like a stone in water.” WaterKnowledgeStonesDevotion Author:Sylvia Fraser
“Our model of Nature should not be like a building-a handsome structure for the populace to admire, until in the course of time some one takes away a corner stone and the edifice comes toppling down. It should be like an engine with movable parts. We need not fix the position of any one lever; that is to be adjusted from time to time as the latest observations indicate. The aim of the theorist is to know the train of wheels which the lever sets in motion-that binding of the parts which is the soul of the engine.” KnowsNeedsShouldSoulScienceCoursesKnowledgePositionBuildingModelsStonesAimStructureTrainCornersAdmireObservationWheelsEnginesHandsomeBindingTheoristsEdificeLevers Author:Arthur Eddington
“Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?” IfsShouldMindInterestCan DoConsciousnessKnowledgeImagineProveStones Book:Philosophical Investigations Source: Philosophical Investigations