Meditation 13
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
source, The Mormons and the Jehovah's Witnesses are the same Organisation, ibid.
Source: Black Coffee Blues
Source: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
“It's amazing how fast gold works.”
On building the clacks, at alt.fan.pratchett (18 June 2002) http://www.lspace.org/fandom/afp/timelines/discussions/building-the-clacks.html
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“This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.”
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.
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
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?”
Vincennes University (December 2019)
