"Real science exists, then, only from the moment when a phenomenon is accurately defined as to its nature and rigorously determined in relation to its material conditions, that is, when its law is known. Before that, we have only groping and empiricism."

-- Claude Bernard

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“Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.”
“They want you to believe the Sun is hot. I urge you to ask yourself 'Have they ever touched it? Think about it.”
“Magna carta. Master charga.”
“When you look to the past, don't sit and dwell on your regrets. Instead, focus on the things you learned from each experience and how they may enrich your future. Use the past not as something to hold you back, but as a method for reaffirming the drive to move forward on your chosen path.”
“Do not underestimate the human being, who sometimes appears so simple. Even with sight as sharp as an eagle, a mind as sharp as a razor, senses more powerful than gods, hearing that can catch the music and the lamentations of life, your knowledge of humanity will never be total.”

Source : Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1991). “This Earth of Mankind”, William Morrow
“Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.”
“The amateur salesman sells products; the professional sells solutions to needs and problems.”
“As the world becomes ever more crowded, so folding will become ever more important.”

Source : "How to... fold things" by Guy Browning, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2000.

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