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March 23, 2006
Objective attention
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These would make good "quantations".
Posted by: riannan | Mar 24, 2006 8:58:53 AM
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
AE
Posted by: AE | Mar 23, 2006 2:05:01 PM
It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiousity of inquiry.
Quoted in H Eves _Return to Mathematical Circles_ (Boston 1988).
Albert Einstein
P.S. I LOVE black and white photos. AE would look funny-odd in color.
Posted by: Mb | Mar 23, 2006 12:38:35 PM
If another man tries to oppress him, he understands that and is ready to fight to death and sacrifice all he has, rather than submit; but the tyranny of things is so subtle, so gradual in its approach, and comes so masked with seeming benefits, that it has him hopelessly bound before he suspects his fetters. He says from day to day, “I will add thus to my house;” “I will have one or two more horses;” “I will make a little greenhouse in my garden;” “I will allow myself the luxury of another hired man;” and so he goes on having things and imagining that he is richer for them. Presently he begins to realize that it is the things that own him. He has piled them up on his shoulders, and there they sit like Sindbad’s Old Man and drive him; and it becomes a daily question whether he can keep his trembling legs or not.
~ Edward Sanford Martin, Windfalls of Observation
Posted by: Shawn Lea | Mar 23, 2006 11:50:05 AM
