These spots have never been observed by anyone before me; and from my observations of them, often repeated, I have been led to the opinion which I have expressed, namely, that I feel sure that the surface of the Moon is not perfectly smooth, free from inequalities and exactly spherical… ...
Scientific investigations are a sort of warfare carried on in the closet or on the couch against all one's contemporaries and predecessors; I have often gained a signal victory when I have been half asleep, but more frequently have found, upon being thoroughly awake, that the enemy had still...
"Visible light (commonly referred to simply as light) iselectromagnetic radiation(EMR) that isvisibleto thehuman eye, and is responsible for the sense ofsight. Visible light has awavelengthin the range of about 380nanometresto about 740 nm – between the invisibleinfrared, with longer wavelengths...
It is more about You and Now, rather than Them and Back Then. There is not much to say about the "Unknown." To dig is to discover. The Ten Thousand Things are more enchanting than the Silent One. Rather than "love mankind," it'd rather admire a few good people. A calluse...
If you've seen the movie, you definitely need to see the book because the movie left a lot out. Never Met a Man I Didn't Like : The Life and Writings of Will Rogersby Joseph H. Carter If you're looking for more information about the oft-quoted actor and writer Will Rogers, here...
but very dry to talk about." Jeremy Bentham "The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things." Epictetus "Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness." ...
The ego is constantly judging everybody and everything. It has its constant little chit chat about things that can happen in the future, things about the past, too, and these are the little fish that swim by. And what we learn to do—this is why it takes work—is to not reach out...
we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. Iris Murdoch I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. Emma Goldman I will be the gladdest thing Under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers ...
o Reason can't help but think about triad: ideas of pure reason: can't demonstrate § Grounded in cause-effect experience § Copernican Revolution: reason as center of cosmos: synthesis rationalism and empiricism o Practical/ethical philosophy ...
Finally, from what we now know about the cosmos, to think that all this was created for just one species among the tens of millions of species who live on one planet circling one of a couple of hundred billion stars that are located in one galaxy among hundreds of billions of galaxies,...