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229b937	The cloudless day is richer at its close; A golden glory settles on the lea; Soft, stealing shadows hint of cool repose To mellowing landscape, and to calming sea. And in that nobler, gentler, lovelier light, The soul to sweeter, loftier bliss inclines; Freed form the noonday glare, the favour'd sight Increasing grace in earth and sky divines. But ere the purest radiance crowns the green, Or fairest lustre fills th' expectant grove,		nature romance sadness love love-lost lustre pantheism forest melancholy sky twilight reminiscence memory	H. P. Lovecraft
96e737e	I laughed derisively. "For goodness' sake, don't start gargling now. This is serious." "I was laughing."			P. G. Wodehouse
230c576	I'm just a man, no more enlightened than any other.			George P. Pelecanos
721efde	I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a flower and say, "Look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. But then he'll say, "I, as an artist, can see how beautiful a flower is. But you, as a scientist, take it all apart and it becomes dull." I think he's kind of nutty. ... There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the ex..			Richard P. Feynman
d35dff3	Once in Hawaii I was taken to see a Buddhist temple. In the temple a man said, "I am going to tell you something that you will never forget." And then he said, "To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell."			Richard P. Feynman
e0991da	It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.			Richard P. Feynman
6bb6f56	the only thing that can be predicted is the probability of different events.			Richard P. Feynman
fa4b2de	You too heavy a man for me to carry...I done carried heavy men and I know how they can break your back. I ain't got but this one back and I don't want it broke again...			Edward P. Jones
073e43f	When Augustus Townsend died in Georgia near the Florida line, he rose up above the barn where he had died, up above the trees and the crumbling smokehouse and the little family house nearby, and he walked away quick-like, toward Virginia. He discovered that when people were above it all they walked faster, as much as a hundred times faster than when they were confined to the earth. And so he reached Virginia in little or no time. He came to..			Edward P. Jones
b15fef9	We get schooled by the people around us, and it stays inside us deep.		schooling	George P. Pelecanos
4d8197a	I've found out since that such people don't know what they're doing, and get insulted when you make some suggestion or criticism.			Richard P. Feynman
6b44ec5	If someone were to propose that the planets go around the sun because all planet matter has a kind of tendency for movement, a kind of motility, let us call it an 'oomph,' this theory could explain a number of other phenomena as well. So this is a good theory, is it not? No. It is nowhere near as good as the proposition that the planets move around the sun under the influence of a central force which varies exactly inversely as the square o..		theory imagination science explainability rigor scrutiny rationalization pseudoscience	Richard P. Feynman
dabdf83	How can we tell whether the rules which we "guess" at are really right if we cannot analyze the game very well? There are, roughly speaking, three ways. First, there may be situations where nature has arranged, or we arrange nature, to be simple and to have so few parts that we can predict exactly what will happen, and thus we can check how our rules work. (In one corner of the board there may be only a few chess pieces at work, and that we..			Richard P. Feynman
7592688	THE QUESTION IS, OF COURSE, IS IT GOING TO BE POSSIBLE TO AMALGAMATE EVERYTHING, AND MERELY DISCOVER THAT THIS WORLD REPRESENTS DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF ONE THING?		science physics	Richard P. Feynman
8586b71	if you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid--not only what you think is right about it: other causes that could possibly explain your results; and things you thought of that you've eliminated by some other experiment, and how they worked--to make sure the other fellow can tell they have been eliminated.		scientific-method	Richard P. Feynman
762ba21	If instead of arranging the atoms in some definite pattern, again and again repeated, on and on, or even forming little lumps of complexity like the odor of violets, we make an arrangement which is always different from place to place, with different kinds of atoms arranged in many ways, continually changing, not repeating, how much more marvelously is it possible that this thing might behave? Is it possible that that "thing" walking back a..		richard-feynman six-easy-pieces physics	Richard P. Feynman
7ed3a0e	W if for Women. They're awful, mendacious, Nasty and selfish, cruel and salacious,			O'rourke P J
68abc32	Good works?" "About the village, sir. Reading to the bedridden - chatting with the sick - that sort of thing, sir. We can but trust that good results will ensue." "Yes, I suppose so," I said doubtfully. "But, by gosh, if I were a sick man I'd hate to have a looney like young Bingo coming and gibbering at my bedside."			P G Wodehouse
c25395f	He] went on to tell her that certain work songs made the work a little easier, but that there were others, depending upon the time of day, that dragged a body down, so 'you just gotta be careful with your songs and your hummin' and whatnot.			Edward P. Jones
99e1717	Electrons, when they were first discovered, behaved exactly like particles or bullets, very simply. Further research showed, from electron diffraction experiments for example, that they behaved like waves. As time went on there was a growing confusion about how these things really behaved ---- waves or particles, particles or waves? Everything looked like both. This growing confusion was resolved in 1925 or 1926 with the advent of the corre..		science philosophy quantum-mechanics physics	Richard P. Feynman
869cc99	don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way--by rote,			Richard P. Feynman
c900dc6	I won't have anything to do with the Nobel Prize . . . it's a pain in the . . . (LAUGHS). I don't like honors.			Richard P. Feynman
2064e06	The uncertainty principle "protects" quantum mechanics. Heisenberg recognized that if it were possible to measure the momentum and the position simultaneously with a greater accuracy, the quantum mechanics would collapse. So he proposed that it must be impossible."			Richard P. Feynman
0474e0b	alone, and start to think. There are the rushing waves . . . mountains of molecules, each stupidly minding its own business . . . trillions apart . . . yet forming white surf in unison. Ages on ages . . . before any eyes could see . . . year after year . . . thunderously pounding the shore as now. For whom, for what? . . . on a dead planet, with no life to entertain. Never at rest . . . tortured by energy . . . wasted prodigiously by the su..			Richard P. Feynman
25a52f7	I believe, therefore, that although it is not the case today, that there may some day come a time, I should hope, when it will fully appreciated that the power of governments should be limited; that governments ought not to be empowered to decide the validity of scientific theories, that this is a ridiculous thing for them to try to do; that they are not to decide the description of history or of economic theory or of philosophy.		science	Richard P. Feynman
b774559	CURIOSITY DEMANDS THAT WE ASK QUESTIONS, THAT WE TRY TO PUT THINGS TOGETHER AND TRY TO UNDERSTAND THIS MULTITUDE OF ASPECTS AS PERHAPS RESULTING FROM THE ACTION OF A RELATIVELY SMALL NUMBER OF ELEMENTAL THINGS AND FORCES ACTING IN AN INFINITE VARIETY OF COMBINATIONS		science particles physics	Richard P. Feynman
7d3fd00	This is not a new idea; this is the idea of the age of reason. This is the philosophy that guided the men that made the democracy that we live under. The idea that no one really knew how to run a government led to the idea that we should arrange a system by which new ideas could be developed, tried out, and tossed out if necessary, with more new ideas brought in--a trial and error system.		reason trial-and-error	Richard P. Feynman
f70524f	Mathematics is not a science from our point of view, in the sense that it is not a natural science. The test of its validity is not experiment.			Richard P. Feynman
09a7924	The exception proves that the rule is wrong." That is the principle of science. If there is an exception to any rule, and if it can be proved by observation, that rule is wrong."			Richard P. Feynman
adbcd76	It is probably better to realize that the probability concept is in a sense subjective, that it is always based on uncertain knowledge, and that its quantitative evaluation is subject to change as we obtain more information.			Richard P. Feynman
092ca35	Zijeme nase zivoty na malem ostruvku zaslepenosti, bez povedomi o temnych oceanech nekonecna okolo nas. Nemeli bychom se snazit prilis rozhlizet. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.			H P Lovecraft
9f9235f	She is very wonderful, Bertie. She is not one of these flippant, shallow-minded, modern girls. She is sweetly grave and beautifully earnest. She reminds me of - what is the name I want?		jeeves	P G Wodehouse
0ba06c5	I'm lonely, Jeeves.' 'You have a great many friends,sir.' 'What's the good of friends?' 'Emerson,' I reminded him,'says a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature,sir.'			p g wodehouse
cba3981	She sometimes takes her little brother for a walk round this way," explained Bingo. "I thought we would meet her and bow, and you could see her, you know, and then we would walk on." "Of course," I said, "that's enough excitement for anyone, and undoubtedly a corking reward for tramping three miles out of one's way over ploughed fields with tight boots, but don't we do anything else? Don't we tack on to the girl and buzz along with her?" "G..		jeeves	P G Wodehouse
817b58e	His oldest child from his second marriage, Matthew, stayed up all the night before he was buried, putting his father's history on a wooden tombstone. He began with his father's name on the first line, and on the next, he put the years ofhis father's coming and going. Then all the things he knew his father had been. Husband. Father. Farmer. Grandfather. Patroller. Tobacco Man. Tree Maker. The letters ofthe words got smaller and smaller as th..			Edward P. Jones
3ab4342	You already been a punk. Least you can do is go out like a man." Then a dull popping sound and a quiet splash."			George P. Pelecanos
38b17f5	The general tendency is to over-design the second system, using all the ideas and frills that were cautiously sidetracked on the first one.			Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
8cdf8e7	The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination.			Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
9c1e627	The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. The only question is whether to plan in advance to build a throwaway, or to promise to deliver the throwaway to customers.			Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
6738bd4	Philosophers have said before that one of the fundamental requisites of science is that whenever you set up the same conditions, the same thing must happen. This is simply not true, it is not a fundamental condition of science.			Richard P. Feynman
d424a1d	I'm not responsible for what other people think I am able to do; I don't have to be good because they think I'm going to be good.			Richard P. Feynman
94a8395	I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.			Richard P. Feynman
1191df6	But if you've ever worked with computers, you understand the disease--the delight in being able to see how much you can do.			Richard P. Feynman
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