“Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.”
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“It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.”
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“He would rather burst a city gate than find it open to admit him.”
Non tam portas intrare patentis
quam fregisse juvat.
Book II, line 443 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
Ernst Ruska
(1906–1988) German physicist
Das Lichtmikroskop öffnete das erste Tor zum Mikrokosmos. Das Elektronenmikroskop öffnete das zweite Tor zum Mikrokosmos. Was werden wir finden wenn wir das dritte Tor öffnen?
as quoted by Nan Yao, director of the Imaging and Analysis Center at the Princeton Materials Institute, in the Princeton Weekly Bulletin, February 26, 2001, Vol. 90, No. 18 http://www.princeton.edu/~iac/pwb2_26b.html.
“Morning, from the springs of light:
Thunder, round Heaven's opening gates..”
Lionel Johnson
(1867–1902) English poet
"July"
Context: What comes now? The earth awaits
What fierce wonder from the skies?
Thunder, trampling through the night?
Morning, with illustrious eyes?
Morning, from the springs of light:
Thunder, round Heaven's opening gates..
“Fire opens the gates of victory.”
Alexander Suvorov
(1730–1800) Russian military commander
From "The Science of Victory," 1796, quoted in Bragin "Field Marshal Kutuzov," 1944.
“Wide open and unguarded stand our gates”
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
(1836–1907) American poet, novelist, editor
“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
(1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice