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Sunday, 1 March
Two thoughts from Galileo Galilei
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
“Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.”
Monday, 2 March
Two thoughts from Murray Gell-Mann
“Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they’re never really certainties.”
“Modern education is like being taken to the world’s greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.”
Tuesday, 3 March
Two thoughts from Rupert Sheldrake
“Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.”
“The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.”
Wednesday, 4 March
Two thoughts from Jocko Willink
“Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.”
“Besides death, all failure is psychological.”
Thursday, 5 March
Two thoughts from Thomas Carlyle
“I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.”
“Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.”
Friday, 6 March
Two thoughts from Sylvia Plath
“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
“So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.”
Saturday, 7 March
Two thoughts from Samuel Adams
“How strangely will the tools of a tyrant pervert the plain meaning of words!”
“It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.”
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Dear Jim,
Great quotes as always! Some of my faves this week:
Galileo Galilei:
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
Murray Gell-Mann:
“Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they’re never really certainties.”
“Modern education is like being taken to the world’s greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.”
Jocko Willink:
“Besides death, all failure is psychological.”
Thomas Carlyle:
“I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.”
Sylvia Plath:
“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
“So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.”
Samuel Adams:
“It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.”
Thank you for sharing as always!
Love
Myq