David Icke (1952) English writer and public speaker
source, The Mormons and the Jehovah's Witnesses are the same Organisation, ibid.
“How deepe do we dig, and for how coarse gold?”
Meditation 13
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
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“Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.”
Lionel Shriver book We Need to Talk About Kevin
Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Source: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
“It's amazing how fast gold works.”
Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
On building the clacks, at alt.fan.pratchett (18 June 2002) http://www.lspace.org/fandom/afp/timelines/discussions/building-the-clacks.html <br class="br">Usenet
“This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.”
Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator
Source: The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995), Ch. 17 : The Marriage of Skepticism and Wonder
Context: At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes - an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive, and the most ruthlessly skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense. The collective enterprise of creative thinking and skeptical thinking, working together, keeps the field on track. Those two seemingly contradictory attitudes are, though, in some tension.
“How mighty are the Sabbaths,
How mighty and how deep,
That the high courts of heaven
To everlasting keep.”
O quanta qualia<br/>sunt illa sabbata,<br/>quae semper celebrat<br/>superna curia.
Peter Abelard (1079–1142) French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician
O quanta qualia
sunt illa sabbata,
quae semper celebrat
superna curia.
"Sabbato ad Vesperas", line 1; translation from Helen Waddell Mediaeval Latin Lyrics ([1929] 1933) p. 163
Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
“Everyone has talent. The question is how do we find it, and how do we nurture it?”
Newton Lee American computer scientist
Vincennes University (December 2019)