"What you're thinking about is what you are being."

-- Erich Schiffmann

#Thinking Quotes

“In my house you have to talk to cats because, being ten of them, there are a lot of important things you have to say to them-like 'Get off' and 'Shut up' and things like that.”
“My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home”
“I'm getting older every day, and I'm going to be making music until I drop dead.”
“It's magic. All of a sudden, the idea just pops up. Who knows how?”
“Peace! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies! But beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise.”
“Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.”
“After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine...”
“When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced himself, by counting his pulse, that the duration of the oscillations was independent of the arc through which it moved, who could know that this discovery would eventually put it in our power, by means of the pendulum, to attain an accuracy in the measurement of time till then deemed impossible, and would enable the storm-tossed seaman in the most distant oceans to determine in what degree of longitude he was sailing?”

Source : Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.93, University of Chicago Press

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