Everything that is alive
forms an atmosphere
around itself.
(Goethe: Maxims and Reflections)
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Everything that is alive
forms an atmosphere
around itself.
(Goethe: Maxims and Reflections)
I am enough of an artist
to draw freely
upon my imagination.
(Einstein: From interview.)
If I have seen further
it is by standing
on the shoulders of Giants.
(Newton: Letter to R. Hooke.)
Plato is my friend,
Aristotle is my friend,
but my greatest friend is truth.
(Newton: From notes.)
Man follows only phantoms.
(Laplace.)
What we know is not much.
What we do not know is immense.
(Laplace (?).)
The last thing we expect of you,
General, is a lesson in geometry!
(Laplace to Napoleon.)
If the moon be with thee,
thou needest not to care
about the stars.
(Arabian proverb.)
Τὰ σπουδαῖα μελέτα.
(Σόλων.)
Σφραγίζου τοὺς μὲν λόγους σιγῇ,
τὴν δὲ σιγὴν καιρῷ.
(Σόλων.)