aimeeweiss
We live today not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two.
Maybe you have to believe in the value of everything to believe in the value of anything.
In a way, the best education you can get is just talking with people who are really smart and interested in things, and you can get that for the cost of lunch.
// from explore-blog
עברנו את פרעה, נעבור גם את זה
your eyes tell so many stories
so few words describe the places you’ve been, you are full of metaphors, different colors of ink, and your scars hold secrets not revealed, there are dreams, trails that stopped, new paths on the horizon, there’s a new sun in the winter sky
Science does not purvey absolute truth, science is a mechanism. It’s a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature, it’s a system for testing your thoughts against the universe and seeing whether they match.
(via explore-blog)
// from explore-blog
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
Mark S. Smith: The academic life is a matter of intellectual faith and not just a matter of ascertaining facts
Culture hides much more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.
The ancient story anticipated aspects of the situation in the world today. It is my hope that by reflecting on the ancient situation, we might be able to understand our world and ourselves better. Otherwise, there is the risk of something of our humanity - and perhaps of our divinity - getting lost in translation.
Mark S. Smith
Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Lord Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems
