And we shall deserve it

«At a dinner H. G. Wells expounded his theory that mankind had failed. The dinosaur had failed because he had concentrated upon size. Homo sapiens had failed because he had not developed the right type of brain. So, Wells claimed, we will first destroy ourselves, then die out as a species, and revert to mud and slime. “And we shall deserve it,” he added. One of the guests objected that surely it wouldn't be as bad as that. “One thousand years more” said Wells.“That's all Homo sapiens has before him” »   

Quality is not a quantity

The elusive aspect of quality is that it cannot be quantitatively measured.

(Dr. Divago)

What do we know?

Do you believe the caterpillar knows that one day it is going to be a butterfly?

                                                                                       (Dr. Divago)

Where?

Light is in the flame.

(Dr. Divago)

Smile because it happened

The wish to be remarkable

«Nothing is so commonplace as to wish to be remarkable».

 

(Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, 1858)

Merely fact-minded sciences

«Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people».

(Edmund Husserl, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, 1936).