George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
Review of Indian Mosaic by Mark Channing, in The Listener (15 July 1936)
“There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in England, and vice versa.”
Perhaps the fundamental difference is that beneath a tropical sun individuality seems less distinct and the loss of it less important.
Review of Indian Mosaic by Mark Channing, in The Listener (15 July 1936)
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“Principles
You can't say A is made of B
or vice versa.
All mass is interaction.”
Richard Feynman (1918–1988) American theoretical physicist
note (c. 1948), quoted in Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992) by James Gleick, p. 5 (repeated p. 283)
Max Born (1882–1970) physicist
Variants (these could be paraphrases or differing translations): The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.
The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.
Source: Natural Philosophy of Cause and Chance (1964), p. 230, also in My Life and Views (1968), p. 183
“Do not forget that others won’t see the problems the way you look at or vice versa.”
Elia M. Ramollah (1973) founder and leader of the El Yasin Community
The Great Master of Thought (Amen- Vol.3), Observing management
Masti Venkatesha Iyengar (1891–1986) Indian writer
Anatha Murthy, in his book review, describes Masti, the Sahitya Akademi Awardee as here [Masti Venkatesha Iyengar, Masti, http://books.google.co.in/books/about/Masti.html?id=e6VqgWouUmUC&redir_esc=y, 2004, Katha, 978-81-87649-50-2, Review]
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Alexandre Koyré (1892–1964) French philosopher
Newtonian Studies (1965), p. 114.
