“Anything Anytime Anyplace For No Reason At All (or AAAFNRAA)”
“We must trust to nothing but facts”
Source: Elements of Chemistry (1790), pp. xviii
Context: We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.
“I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.”
Quoted from a biographical note written by Tatlin in 1929, published in Tatlin', Weingarten; Kunstverlag Weingarten, 1987), p. 328; as quoted by Vasilii Rakitin, in The great Utopia - The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915-1932; Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1992, p. 34
Quotes, 1926 - 1954
“If you quit ONCE it becomes a habit. Never quit!!!”
"Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World" in Modern Mechanics and Inventions (July 1934)
Context: The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
Source: I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
Source: Thank You and You're Welcome (2009), p.22
“I use bits and pieces of others [sic] personalities to form my own.”
Source: Journals (2002), p. 95
“The way we see the problem is the problem.”
“Happiness is the readiness to be happy.”
Aphorism #33
Interglacial (2004)
