Nicholas

“He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The obsidian flake and the silicon chip are struck by the light of the same campfire that has passed from hand to hand since the human mind began.”
― George Dyson, Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship

“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding.”
― Werner Karl Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science