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Order is the dream of man. Henry Adams

all ignorance toboggans into know–—and trudges up to ignorance again. E. E. Cummings

Es gibt nichts Praktischeres als eine gute Theorie. Immanuel Kant

La pensée n’est qu’un éclair au milieu de la nuit. Mais c’est cet éclair qui est tout. Henri Poincaré

Oscura e profonda era e nebulosa tanto che, per ficcar lo viso a fondo, io non vi discernea alcuna cosa. (Obscure, profound it was, and nebulous, So that by fixing on its depths my sight Nothing whatever I discerned therein.) Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto IV; ₪ trans. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Das Wesentliche im Dasein eines Menschen von meiner Art liegt in dem, was er denkt und wie er denkt, nicht in dem was er tut oder erleidet. Albert Einstein

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. L P Hartley, The Go-Between

The past is never dead. In fact, it's not even past. William Faulkner

I think I have given sufficient information to enable any competent person to follow up the matter in more detail if it is thought to be desirable. It is obvious that the methods of the professedly rigorous mathematicians are sadly lacking in demonstrativeness as well as in comprehensiveness. Oliver Heaviside

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. Samuel Johnson

...und hinter ihren Rücken begann die grosse Dunkelheit, die in einiger Entfernung rasch undurchdringlich wurde. Robert Musil, 𝔡𝔐𝔬𝔈

Buen corazón quebranta mala ventura. Miguel de Cervantes. D.Q.

The scientist has an experimental mind, not a litigious one. Atul Gawande

In nature’s infinite book of secrecy / A little I can read. (Soothsayer, in Antony and Cleopatra, A1,S2. WS)

"I wish I owned half of that dog." "Why?" somebody asked. "Because I would kill my half." Puddn'head Wilson

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