Dicen q Einstein o dijo o escribió:
- Never memorize what you can look up in books.
- I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
- Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
- Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
- The important thing is not to stop questioning...
- Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
- As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
(Séneca)
Confucio:
- Saber que se sabe lo que se sabe y que no se sabe lo que no se sabe; he aquí el verdadero saber. v.2: La cualidad de quien sabe es saber lo que no sabe.
- Quien volviendo a hacer el camino viejo aprende el nuevo, puede considerarse un maestro.
- Aprender sin reflexión, es inútil.
La muerte es una quimera: porque mientras yo existo, no existe la muerte; y cuando existe la muerte, ya no existo yo.
(Epicuro)
Dream for an insomniac: una película sencilla, con protagonistas que adoran estas cosas, pero que tienen unas que me dejan pegá:
- I never give up. I either get what I want, or I change my mind first.
- See? We could be best friends, but we'd still have lust in our eyes.
La duda es la madre del descubrimiento.
(A. Bierce)
A menudo el sepulcro encierra, sin saberlo, dos corazones en un mismo ataúd.
(A. de Lamartine)
Y dicen que George B. Shaw produjo tanta cosa...
- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
- Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
- Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
- No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.
- When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
- There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
- Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten more.
- It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
No tenía miedo a las dificultades: lo que la asustaba era la obligación de tener que escoger un camino. Escoger un camino significaba abandonar otros.
(P. Coehlo)
Yo no cito a otros más que para expresar mejor mi pensamiento.
(Montaigne)