-Albert Einstein
(more…)Experience
1100 – Galileo on God and Science
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them. He would not require us to deny sense and reason in physical matters which are set before our eyes and minds by direct experience or necessary demonstrations.”
-Galileo Galilei
(more…)1073 – “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
-anonymous [See Source Notes for attributions]
(more…)984 – “Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.”
-Annie Besant
(more…)955 – “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
-Albus Dumbledore in J K Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
(more…)921 – “She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thought that wander off the edge of the world.”
-Joanne Harris
(more…)870 – A Poem by Charles Bukowski
lifedance
“the area dividing the brain and the soul
is affected in many ways by
experience—
some lose all mind and become soul:
insane.
some lose all soul and become mind:
intellectual.
some lose both and become:
accepted.”
–Charles Bukowski
