“Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.”

“Growing has no connection with audience.
Audience has no connection with identity.
Identity has no connection with a universe.
A universe has no connection with human nature.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays

“The order and connection of the thought is identical to with the order and connection of the things.”
Ordo et connexio idearum idem est ac ordo et connexio rerum

Baruch Spinoza book Ethics

“Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

“We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.”

Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967) American theoretical physicist and professor of physics

“Peace is only possible when one of the warring sides takes the first step, the hazardous initiative, the risk of opening up dialogue, and decides to make the gesture that will lead not only to an armistice but to peace.”

Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) French philosopher (1930-2004)

“Calculation establishes that a quantum positive energy theorem may be possible using a representation based on the Ashtekar connection. Left open is a key question of whether this use of the Ashtekar connection is necessary or whether a positive quantum energy result can be achieved for representations based on other connections, i. e., for [other] values of the Immirzi parameter.”

Lee Smolin (1955) American cosmologist

“I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The thesis of the identity of concept and thing is in general the vital nerve of idealist thought, and indeed traditional thought in general. … Negative dialectics as critique means above all criticism of precisely this claim to identity.”

Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969) German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for his critical theory of society