It - Quotes
I think everybody`s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.
You never know what`s around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you`ve climbed a mountain.
Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, - we need never read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications? To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man`s abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
In the development of mathematical ideas, one important initial driving force has always been to find mathematical structures that accurately mirror the behaviour of the physical world. But it is normally not possible to examine the physical world itself in such precise detail that appropriately clear-cut mathematical notions can be abstracted directly from it. Instead, progress is made because mathematical notions tend to have a "momentum" of their own that appears to spring almost entirely from within the subject itself. Mathematical ideas develop, and various kinds of problem seem to arise naturally.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Dying is a dull, dreary affair. My advice is that you have nothing whatever to with it.