"the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control."

-- Madeleine L'Engle

#Letting Go Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Reason Quotes

“In the end the question is: Who is to be master, man or his machines? As long as the control over technology rests primarily on economic calculation, the victor is not likely to be man.”

Source : "The Future As History". Book by Robert Heilbroner, Chapter III, part 10, The Mastery of Technology, p. 161, 1960.
“To achieve great things you have first to believe it.”
“Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.”

Source : Stan Brakhage, Arts Council of Great Britain (1980). “Stan Brakhage: an American independent film-maker”
“My skin is like a map of where my heart has been And I can't hide the marks It's not a negative thing.”

Source : FaceBook post by Natasha Bedingfield from Jun 30, 2012
“A goal of education is. to assist growth toward greater complexity and integration and to assist in the process of self-organization - to modify individuals capacity to modify themselves.”
“The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.”
“Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.”
“When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experiences of nearly forty years at sea, I merely say uneventful. I have never been in an accident of any sort worth speaking about....I never saw a wreck and have never been wrecked, nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort.”

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