“How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!” ShouldHeartMayHas BeensHardWisdomEarthGrowsCompassionRocksColorFlowerSpringGardenStonesSakeExperimentsHeart Breaking Author:Rumi
“What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,- The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?” NeedsShouldAgeNamesStarsMemoriesSonFameStonesWeakDearBonesWitnessLabourHonourPointingPyramidsHeirsRelics Author:John Milton
“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