"This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly."

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

#Fall Quotes #Bird Quotes #Teach Quotes

“Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions, to be ruthlessly self-critical. Science is a collective enterprise with the error-correction machinery often running smoothly.”
“If you are only doing what you are getting paid for, and doing it no better than the average employee, then your pay is most likely right where it should be”
“Man has no individual i. But there are, instead, hundreds and thousands of separate small "i"s, very often entirely unknown to one another, never coming into contact, or, on the contrary, hostile to each other, mutually exclusive and incompatible. Each minute, each moment, man is saying or thinking, "i". And each time his i is different. just now it was a thought, now it is a desire, now a sensation, now another thought, and so on, endlessly. Man is a plurality. Man's name is legion.”
“It's important for me to have different tiers of value for the art. Some of the silk-screens are really affordable, but I do have some high-end silk-screens that are several color layers and a little more expensive, and then I have the paintings that can get way up there.”
“Some people have lives; some people have music.”
“Everybody that I meet inspires me. You can learn so much from any person that you meet any day on the side of the street.”
“Into this wild-beast tangle these men had been born without their consent, they had taken part in it because they could not help it; that they were in jail was no disgrace to them, for the game had never been fair, the dice were loaded. They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been trapped and put out of the way by the swindlers and thieves of millions of dollars.”

Source : Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Jungle”, p.163, Xist Publishing
“We are 13.7 billion light-years from the edge of the observable universe; that's a good estimate with well-defined error bars and with the available information, I predict that I will always be with you.”

Source : "Katie Melua's bad science" by Simon Singh, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2005.

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