A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
-Oscar Wilde
Tag: Quote
Instead of always emphasizing what we actually know…
Instead of always emphasizing what we actually know in science, it would be enormously fruitful to focus on what we do not know. For it is here that the wonders lie. To know is the domain that is safe, where risk taking is no longer necessary. To dwell in it forever is not only to never advance, it is also to promote a deceptive and false view of ourselves as knowing more than we do, of being more powerful that we really are.
-Lewis Thomas, Former President of Sloane Kettering Cancer Institute
Men are disturbed not by the things which…
Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things.
-Epictetus
Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never…
Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original shape.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
The art of progress is to preserve order…
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
-Alfred North Whitehead