‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops – at all
And sweetest in the Gale, is heard
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm...
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I’ve once written about the myth of Prometheus, the titan that gave humanity fire, and was severely punished for it by the gods. There is one more famous Greek story that’s connected to this myth, a story about curiosity and its consequences, the...
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No man is an island, entire of itself.
Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea…
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own...
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze, than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent...
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People ask me “What’s the use of climbing Mount Everest?”
And my answer must at once be, “It is of no use, there is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.”
Oh, we may learn a little about the behaviour of the human body at high...
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We know very well that errors are better recognized in the works of others than in our own,
And that often, while reproving little faults in others, you may ignore great ones in yourself.
A very good plan every now and then is to go away and have...
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"The only thing we are absolutely certain about is that nothing is certain."
-Werner Heisenberg-
Quantum Physics is one of the most difficult things to wrap your head around, in fact, if you’re starting to feel like you understand quantum...
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If you can keep your head all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too.
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, or being lied about, don’t...
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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes in a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life.
Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending...
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Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.
Try to love the questions themselves.
Like locked rooms, or books written in a foreign language
Do no now look for the answers, they cannot now be given to you
Because you would...
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