Robert Rosen (1934–1998) American theoretical biologist
Robert Rosen (2013), Essays on Life Itself Chapter 18
Robert Rosen (1934–1998) American theoretical biologist
Robert Rosen (2013), Essays on Life Itself Chapter 18
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer
Source: " A Case of Voluntary Ignorance http://www.christiebooks.com/ChristieBooksWP/2013/11/a-case-of-voluntary-ignorance-by-aldous-huxley/" in Collected Essays (1959)
“All the lessons learned, unlearned”
Stephen Spender (1909–1995) English poet and man of letters
"Fall of a City"
Selected Poems (1941)
Context: All the lessons learned, unlearned;
The young, who learned to read, now blind
Their eyes with an archaic film;
The peasant relapses to a stumbling tune
Following the donkey`s bray;
These only remember to forget. But somewhere some word presses
On the high door of a skull and in some corner
Of an irrefrangible eye
Some old man memory jumps to a child
— Spark from the days of energy.
And the child hoards it like a bitter toy.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Source: Tomorrow Is Now (1963), p. xv
Context: We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future. Spinoza, I think, pointed out that we ourselves can make experience valuable when, by imagination and reason, we turn it into foresight.
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer
“They do.”
Source: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 9, "Orm Embar" (Ged and Arren)
“The correct lesson to learn from surprises: the world is surprising.”
Daniel Kahneman (1934) Israeli-American psychologist
John H. Disher (1921–1988) American aeronautical engineer and NASA manager
"Skylab Lessons Learned" (22 September 1975) at NASA Office of Logic Design http://klabs.org/richcontent/Misc_Content/AGC_And_History/Skylab/Skylab_Disher.htm
Ma Ying-jeou (1950) Taiwanese politician, president of the Republic of China
Ma Ying-jeou (2013) cited in: " Minister repeats apologies over death http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2013/07/19/2003567672/2" in The Taipei Times, 19 July 2013. <br class="br">Statement made at the Republic of China Veterans Association meeting in Taipei commenting on the death of army corporal Hung Chung-chiu, 18 July 2013. <br class="br">Defense issues