Nader Ibrahim > Nader's Quotes

“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”
― Nikola Tesla

“If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is.” –Paraphrased from Charles Bukowski’s poem “Roll the Dice”
― Charles Bukowski

“And let your best be for your friend.
If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also.
For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?
Seek him always with hours to live.
For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“Where do ideas come from? From looking at one thing, and seeing another. From fooling around, from playing with possibilities, from speculating, from changing, pushing, pulling, transforming, and if you’re lucky, you come up with something worth saving, using, and building on. That’s where the game stops and the work begins.”
~ Short Film: Why Man Creates”
― Saul Bass

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein

“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”
― Albert Einstein

“Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.”
― Benoît Mandelbrot

“For a thinking person, the most serious mental illness is not being sure of who you are.”
― Benoît B. Mandelbrot, The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick

“For a complex natural shape, dimension is relative. It varies with the observer. The same object can have more than one dimension, depending on how you measure it and what you want to do with it. And dimension need not be a whole number; it can be fractional. Now an ancient concept, dimension, becomes thoroughly modern.”
― Benoît B. Mandelbrot, The (Mis)Behavior of Markets

“My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back I see a pattern.”
― Benoît B. Mandelbrot

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at creating around it an absolute uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it. It is not selfish to think for oneself. A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbor that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him. A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man & Prison Writings

“الحقيقة أن الجاذب واحدٌ، لكنه يتراءى متعددًأ. ألا ترى أن الإنسان تستبد به مئة من الرغائب المختلفة؟ - يقول: "أريد تتماج، أريد بورك، أريد حلوى، أريد فطائر مقلية، أريد فاكهة، أريد رطبًأ." يعدّد هذه الأشياء ويسمّيها واحدًا واحدًا، لكن أصلها جميعًا شئ واحد، أصلها الجوعُ؛ وذلك شئ واحد. ألا ترى كيف أنه عندما يشبع من واحد منها، يقول: "لا ضرورة لشئ من هذه الأشياء؟”
― جلال الدين الرومي, فيه ما فيه

“Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Collected Later Poems of Alvaro de Campos: 1928-1935

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Uncertainty and Complementarity It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about Nature. —NIELS BOHR       DETERMINISM—THE”
― Heinz R. Pagels, The Cosmic Code

“We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.

[About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:]”
― Niels Bohr

“He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
― Albert Einstein

“We're all a genius, but If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstien

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
― Nikola Tesla

“My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.”
― Nikola Tesla

“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more”
― Nikola Tesla

“Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.”
― Nikola Tesla

“[W]hen trying to understand the character of the modern mind, it is impossible to separate the effects of genes and the developmental environment.”
― Steven Mithen, The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science

“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.”
― Max Planck, Where Is Science Going?

“Imagine a musical piece that has no gaps between its tones. Just a continuous release of sound, and think how exhausting and overwhelming it will be? The same thing goes for communication in all its forms.

There is no musical skill that would make you succeed to ignore the value of gaps between tones and make good music. There is no conversational skill that you can learn to ignore the value of silence and make good communication. You have to develop better understanding about gaps. You have to value the function of silence.”
― Nader Ibrahim

“Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?”
― Emil Cioran

“Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?”
― Emil Cioran, Tears and Saints

“If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason.”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

“Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.”
― Emil Cioran