Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.
-Benjamin Franklin
Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.
-Benjamin Franklin
We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not some books continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, and cities have been decayed and demolished?
-Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Q : What is your most profound place, Zen Master?
A : Nothing conceals it, but not even one in a million can see it.
-DaeWon Hwadu: Zen Questions and Answers from Korea
This comic strip published by Bouletcorp is brilliant. In fact, this is pure genius that the world needs to see. Four simple images tell a powerful story about the nature of reality.
A French man tired of the illusory nature of the real world that is trapped between relativity and quantum theory takes refuge in a 2D electronic world only to meet Stephen Hawking there who explains to him that the chaos does not end by cutting out a dimension.
If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
-Albert Einstein