"But this same process of the old teaching the young can also cause errors and false conclusions to accumulate with the passage of time. One should therefore study ancient writings, not so much in the hope of finding lost wisdom as in the hope of locating the origin of errors that have been, and still are, accepted truths."

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Source : Carl Eckart (1984). “Our Modern Idol, Mathematical Science”

Carl Eckart

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“Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.”
“The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.”
“The steady states of the fluid matrix of the body are commonly preserved by physiological reactions, i.e., by more complicated processes than are involved in simple physico-chemical equilibria. Special designations, therefore, are appropriate:â€”â€œhomeostasisâ€ to designate stability of the organism; â€œhomeostatic conditions,â€ to indicate details of the stability; and â€œhomeostatic reactions,â€ to signify means for maintaining stability.”
“When you're a teenager, you don't want to bring your emotions to the surface and talk about them. You want to push them away.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.”
“In putting together your standards, remember that it is essential to involve your entire team. Standards are not rules issued by the boss; they are a collective identity. Remember, standards are the things that you do all the time and the things for which you hold one another accountable.”

Source : Mike Krzyzewski (2009). “The Gold Standard: Building a World-Class Team”, p.63, Hachette UK
“Can you even imagine not hugging?”

Source : "Foreign stumbles shape election narrative" by Chris Stirewalt, www.foxnews.com. February 20, 2014.
“If I were to just focus on stand-up, I could actually, paradoxically enough, be home way more, because I would leave on a Friday, go do a couple theaters Friday, Saturday, maybe Sunday, come home.”

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