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I am used to thinking three or four months in advance, about what I must do, and I calculate on the worst. If I take so many precautions, it is because it is my custom to leave nothing to chance.... Read more →

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“A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.” - Alexander Pope Read more →

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Our institutions are failing because they are disobeying laws of effective organization which their administrators do not know about, to which indeed their cultural mind is closed, because they contend that there exists and can exist no science competent to... Read more →

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Nessuna humana investigazione si dimandara vera scienzia s'essa non passa per le mathematoche dimomstrazione No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically - Leonardo da Vinci - 1452 - 1519 Read more →

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We bid you, then, who are priests in the realm of nature, to press on your labors with all vigor. See to it that mankind is not forever mocked by a philosophy empty, superficial, false, and uselessly subtle. Your heritage... Read more →

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Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you are going to conceal faults by concealing the evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go into your library and read every book. - Dwight Eisenhower Read more →

Thought for the Day

At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit, millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of a hallucinated enthusiast such as Mahomet created a force capable of triumphing over the Graeco-Roman word; an obscure monk like Luther... Read more →