"We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive."

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Source : Humphry Davy (1840). “The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy (etc.)”, p.303

Humphry Davy

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“I'm gonna catch you with your head down tonight. I'm gonna take it off.”
“If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe”
“People always ask me about career choices, though it rarely ever seems like any kind of choice. It's just like, I really want to do something, this is what I can do, and that's it. I'm lucky to be doing this at all.”
“The page of my notebook was filled with many messy integrals, but all of a sudden I saw emerge a formula for counting. I had begun to calculate a quantity on the assumption that the result was a real number, but found instead that, in certain units, all the possible answers would be integers. This meant that areas and volumes cannot take any value, but come in multiples of fixed units.”

Source : Lee Smolin (2008). “Three Roads To Quantum Gravity”, p.106, Hachette UK
“I woke up this morning,â€ Gabriel said, â€œthinking of nothing more than rolling over and pulling you into my arms and kissing you again. Kissing: only kissing. As if I were a green boy of fourteen. In case you donâ€™t realize it, Kate, kissing is not a manâ€™s usual inclination in the morning.”
“You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.”

Source : Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”
“Though some still see the Internet, for example, as a democratic structure for international individual expression, it is more realistic to recognize it as only the latest technological vehicle to be turned, sooner or later, to corporate advantage - for advertising, marketing and general corporate aggrandizement.”

Source : "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.
“It is only in your mind that you have to excel, at anything or everything. Of course, it would be very nice to excel at most things. Indeed, we recommend that you try and do your best. But realistically, you are entitled to do the bare minimum to get by. All your accomplishments are just a bonus, something to enjoy, not requirements. You don't have to do anything to prove that you are worthy of existing.”

Source : David D. Burns (1980). “Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy”

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