Bir şeylerin başlangıcı ve sonu ondan delinmez bir sırla ele geçirilemez bir şekilde saklanmış. İçine sürüklendiği hiçliği de, içinde kaybolduğu sonsuzluğu da görebilmekten eşit derecede aciz.
Blaise Pascal, Pensées No. 72
Zaten insan dediğin doğada nedir ki? Sonsuzluğun karşısında hiçbir şey, hiçliğin karşısında her şey, hiçbir şey ve her şey arasında bir orta nokta ve ikisini de anlamaktan son derece uzak.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) on being angry 💭
Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
- mentioned in Nicomachean Ethics
Feynman's monologue on the beauty of Science ✍️
A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe. There are the things of physics: the twisting liquid which evaporates depending on the wind and weather, the reflections in the glass, and our imagination adds the atoms. The glass is a distillation of the Earth's rocks, and in its composition we see the secrets of the universe's age, and the evolution of stars. What strange arrays of chemicals are in the wine? How did they come to be? There are the ferments, the enzymes, the substrates, and the products.
There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation. Nobody can discover the chemistry of wine without discovering, as did Louis Pasteur, the cause of much disease. How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts — physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on — remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all!
-- mentioned in The Feynman Lectures on Physics, The Relation of Physics to Other Sciences
Bukowski der ki: İnsanlar kandırılmak istiyor. Gerçeklikten, yaşamaktan korkuyorlar çünkü. Bu yüzden hep televizyon, izleyip fal baktırıyorlar. Onlara yalan söylerseniz sizi severler, en çok sizi severler. Gerçekleri hatırlatırsanız sizden uzaklaşırlar, bazen nefret bile ederler.
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Fall in love with some activity and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about and it doesn't matter.
“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.”
~ Richard Feynman
(Sorgulanamayan cevaplardansa, cevaplanamayan sorularım olmasını yeğlerim)
When people say we must give more time for progress and justice in policing—I think of this wisdom from James Baldwin.
“How much time do you want, for your progress?”
Justice Can’t Wait. #TyreNichols