Lord M's Quote of the Day

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The ability to generate hypotheses and test them was for a long time looked down on. Give me facts, was the thinking. But facts are only valuable if they can be put in some kind of context. The measurement was not well done, or the basic hypothesis is false. The only way to make progress is to falsify, making hypotheses that can be proven false.

Rodolfo Llinas (in an interview with Kay McGowan in DISCOVER magazine)

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The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you’ve gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you’ve gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?

Chuang Tzu (via lordmsquoteoftheday)

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We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and.'

Arthur Stanley Eddington

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I am not certain of the hereafter. Frankly, I'm not all that certain of the here.

Robert Brault

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Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

George Sand

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The road was new to me, as roads always are going back.

Sarah Orne Jewett (The Country Road of Pointed Firs, 1896)

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A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.

Antonio Porchia (Voces, 1943)

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Norman Cousins

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Eggs cannot be unscrambled.

American Proverb

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There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them.

Robert Brault

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Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for!

Antonio Porchia (Voces, 1943)

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You have to do it by yourself, And you can't do it alone.

Martin Rutte

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I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.

Henry David Thoreau ("Solitude," Walden, 1854)

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Yearning for sun and starlight, roses and winter, together.

Dr. SunWolf

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Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?

Maurice Freehill

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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

Eric Hoffer (Passionate State of Mind, 1955)

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The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.

Phineas Parkhurst Quimby