Vol. I, par. 135
Collected Papers (1931-1958)
“Write your way out of a thinking block—because you'll never think your way out of a writing block.”
Merlin Mann (1966) American blogger
Wired Magazine https://archive.is/20130630162633/www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-08/pl_brown <br class="br">Tweeting as @hotdogsladies
“Science is a way to pursue one's sense of inquiry at the expense of the State.”
Lev Artsimovich (1909–1973) Soviet physicist
as quoted by E.E. Kintner at the Artsimovich Memorial Session of the Seventh International Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research
“Particular individuals do not recur, but their building blocks do.”
John H. Holland (1929–2015) US university professor
Source: Hidden Order - How Adaptation Builds Complexity (1995), Ch 2. Adaptive Systems, p. 79
“Excellent in every way around the glens
The two skilful ones make inquiries”
Taliesin (534–599) Welsh bard
Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The First Address of Taliesin
“Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?”
Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist
“blocked. blocked. blocked. youre all blocked. none of you are free of sin”
Dril Twitter user
[ Link to tweet https://twitter.com/dril/status/473706394009759744] <br class="br">Tweets by year, 2014
Toni Morrison (1931–2019) American writer
Interview in Salon magazine ( 2 February 1998) http://web.archive.org/web/20000301183409/http://www.salon.com/books/int/1998/02/cov_si_02int.html
Rabia Basri Muslim saint and Sufi mystic
as quoted in Farid al-Din Attar, Memorial of the Friends of God (c. 1230, 2009 Translation edited by Losensky).
“I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I do not need.”
Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) French sculptor
Attributed to Rodin in: Naum Ya. Vilenkin (1958). Stories about Sets, p. 125
1950s-1990s
