In the 7th century, an Indian astronomer and mathematician named Brahmagupta defined zero.
In May 1886, Dr. John S. Pemberton, a pharmacist in Atlanta, Georgia, created the syrup for Coca��Cola.
In 2005, the two inventions met.
One line from bee movie that always stuck with me:
Woman to bee: how come you don’t fly everywhere?
Bee to woman: idk. How come you don’t run everywhere?
The World Cup begins tomorrow, and many will watch the matches. Soccer reminds us of something we must not forget: life is not a race to show off on our own, but a path we learn to walk together. Anyone who does not know how to pass the ball, even if they have talent, has not yet understood the game. Anyone who does not know how to live with and for others has not yet understood life. #ApostolicJourney
in augustine of hippo’s confessions x.27.38 (c. 400), he writes, “late have i loved You, beauty so ancient and so new, late have i loved You” (sero te amavi, pulchritudo tam antiqua et tam nova, sero te amavi), before lamenting that “You were within, but i was outside.”
"The notion that the essence of what it means to be human is most clearly revealed in those features of human culture that are universal rather than in those that are distinctive to this people or that is a prejudice that we are not obliged to share. . . . It may be in the cultural particularities of people—in their oddities—that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found."
—CLIFFORD GEERTZ