1112 – “A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.”

-Albert Einstein

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

Advertisement

1081 – “… Vindt maar mooi zooveel je kunt, de meesten vinden niet genoeg mooi.”

“… find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.”

-Vincent van Gogh

1056 – “I almost wish we were butterflies and lived but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”

-John Keats to Fanny Brawne

1053 – “Remember that the revolution is what is important and that each one of us, on our own, is worthless.”

-Ernesto “Che” Guevara

966 – “Ich habe keine besondere Begabung, sondern bin nur leidenschaftlich neugierig.”

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”

-Albert Einstein

914 – “We Americans have yet to really learn our own antecedents, and sort them, to unify them. They will be found ampler than has been supposed, and in widely different sources. Thus far, impress’d by New England writers and schoolmasters, we tacitly abandon ourselves to the notion that our United States has been fashion’d from the British Islands only, and essentially form a second England only — which is a very great mistake.”

-Walt Whitman

887 -“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.”

–Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States of America

881 – “Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I shd. say, ‘sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.'”

–C S Lewis

852 – “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

–Oscar Wilde