"Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no other record than their works; no preconcerted theory described the workings of the imagination to be without imagination, nor did they venture to teach how to invent invention."

-- Isaac D'Israeli

#Philosophical Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Age Quotes

“Technology is, in the broadest sense, mind or intelligence or purpose blending with nature.”

Source : Paul Davies (2010). “The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence”, p.145, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I was born in the late '70s and grew up in the deep South, and I was very much still of an era where racism was a casual part of white people's public and private lives, though it had been pushed more into its own little echo chamber by then. As a five year old, I saw a fully costumed Klan circle, complete with burning cross, on a town square in rural Alabama at high noon.”
“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.”
“There are places on a man's head that are as hard as a rock. Your head's actually stronger than your body. And you don't have too many instruments up there workin'.”
“The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.”
“From the point of view of physics, it is a miracle that [seven million New Yorkers are fed each day] without any control mechanism other than sheer capitalism.”
“Forgiveness is possible even when there is no restitution, no remorse on the part of the perpetrator.”
“The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.”

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