"In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches."

-- Auguste Comte

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“To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh, Add light to some small star. Philosopher. Whilst she yet lives, were stars decay'd, Their light by hers relief might find; But Death will lead her to a shade Where Love is cold and Beauty blind. Lover. Lovers, whose priests all poets are, Think every mistress, when she dies, Is changed at least into a star: And who dares doubt the poet wise? Philosopher. But ask not bodies doom'd to die To what abode they go; Since Knowledge is but Sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.”

Source : Sir William Davenant (1872). “Dramatic Works of William D'Avenant”, p.265
“Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.”
“We are not just highly evolved animals with biological computers embedded inside our skulls; we are also fields of consciousness without limits, transcending time, space, matter, and linear causality.”

Source : Stanislav Grof, Hal Zina Bennett (2009). “The Holotropic Mind: The Three Levels of Human Consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives”, p.18, Harper Collins
“I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.”
“The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.”
“I was the worst bricklayer in the world. I can show you buildings I worked on - they're a hazard. I closed a window one time. I forgot to set back a brick and I just kept going - there I was singing 'There's no business like show business'.”
“In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record - it's easy to discover who's in charge of what. By contrast, natural leaders don't appear on any organization chart.”
“Terribly sad news about Stuart Cable, such a lovely, warm, funny, talented man.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 7, 2010

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