Salvé! (Hello!)
Nómen mihí est Quinctílió. (My name is Quinctilius.)
Quid nómen tibí est? (What is your name?)
Ut valés? (How are you?)
Valeó, et tú? (I'm well, and you?)
Aegrótó. (I'm ill.)
Ubí latrína est? (Where is the toilet?)
Ubí habitás? (Where do you live?)
Habitó Rómae. (I live in Rome.)
Liceatne mihí numerum telephonicum tuum habére? (May I have your phone number?)
Labóró capite. (I have a headache.)
Nunc est mihí domum féstínandum. (Now I have to go home.)
Valé! (Good bye!)
Thursday, 13 January 2011
Spectacles
It is the theory which decides what we can observe.
— Albert Einstein
You see what your knowledge tells you you're seeing.
— James Burke 'The Day The Universe Changed: The Way We Are'
— Albert Einstein
You see what your knowledge tells you you're seeing.
— James Burke 'The Day The Universe Changed: The Way We Are'
Concepts Vs The External World
Physical concepts are the free creations of the human mind and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.
— Albert Einstein 'The Evolution of Physics'
— Albert Einstein 'The Evolution of Physics'
One More World Lost …
It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.
— John Fowles 'The Magus'
— John Fowles 'The Magus'
Creating Images
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as poetry. The poet, too, is not so nearly concerned with describing facts, but creating images.
— Niels Bohr to Werner Heisenberg
— Niels Bohr to Werner Heisenberg
Peripheral Vision
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over.
Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the centre.
— Kurt Vonnegut
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
— Albert Camus
Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the centre.
— Kurt Vonnegut
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
— Albert Camus
Widely Held Beliefs
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
— Bertrand Russell
Observing Relations
Physics is not events, but observations; relativity is the understanding of the world, not as events, but as relations.
— Jacob Bronowski 'The Ascent Of Man'
— Jacob Bronowski 'The Ascent Of Man'
Inverse Proportions
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
— Albert Einstein
— Albert Einstein
Wednesday, 12 January 2011
Pomo Sapiens
We don't understand
he must be clever
— Peter Hammill 'The Jargon King'
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
— Albert Camus
Tuesday, 11 January 2011
Monday, 10 January 2011
Sunday, 9 January 2011
An Age Of Surfaces
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing.
If you can fake that, you've got it made.
— Groucho Marx
If you can fake that, you've got it made.
— Groucho Marx
Labels:
Groucho Marx,
Oscar Wilde
A Remedy Of Errors
Politics is the art of looking for trouble,
finding it everywhere,
diagnosing it incorrectly
and applying the wrong remedies.
— Groucho Marx
finding it everywhere,
diagnosing it incorrectly
and applying the wrong remedies.
— Groucho Marx
Labels:
Groucho Marx,
William Shakespeare
The Opposite Of Espionage
Create all the happiness you are able to create;
remove all the misery you are able to remove.
— Jeremy Bentham
remove all the misery you are able to remove.
— Jeremy Bentham
Labels:
Jeremy Bentham,
Philosophy
Climate Change
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
— Juvenal
— Juvenal
Labels:
Juvenal,
Philosophy
Saturday, 8 January 2011
Fancy Tickling
knismesis — light tickling
gargalesis — heavy tickling
gargalesthesia — the sensation caused by tickling
gargalesis — heavy tickling
gargalesthesia — the sensation caused by tickling
Labels:
Definitions
Metaphors
Every religion is true one way or another.
It is true when understood metaphorically.
But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors,
interpreting them as facts,
then you are in trouble.
— Joseph Campbell
God is a metaphor
for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought.
— Joseph Campbell
It is true when understood metaphorically.
But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors,
interpreting them as facts,
then you are in trouble.
— Joseph Campbell
God is a metaphor
for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought.
— Joseph Campbell
Labels:
Joseph Campbell,
Mythology
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