"The historical order is very interesting, but accidental and capricious; if we would to understand the growth of knowledge, we cannot be satisfied with accidents, we must explain how knowledge was gradually built up."

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Source : George Sarton (1964). “A History of Science: Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece”

George Sarton

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“All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.”
“Anybody can say they want to be the greatest ever. I take pride in it. If you're around me long enough and watch me work, that's what I'm striving for. I won't stop until I am.”

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“I don't care what they call me as long as they mention my name.”
“I don't try to force-feed it or put any things on the images until I'm making a painting. It's not photorealism. Photorealism's goal is to reproduce a photograph. The best photorealism can't beat a printer, and I have a really nice printer. I don't want to go blind doing what a printer can do.”

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“Stop looking for a scapegoat in your life but be willing to face the truth within yourself & right your own wrongs”
“If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective”
“Although man is not armed by nature nor is naturally swiftest in flight, yet he has something better by farâ€”reason. For by the possession of this function he exceeds the beasts to such a degree that he subdues. â€¦ You see, therefore, how much the gift of reason surpasses mere physical equipment.”
“It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.”

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