“Fundamental ideas play the most essential role in forming a physical theory. Books on physics are full of complicated mathematical formulae. But thought and ideas, not formulae, are the beginning of every physical theory.”
― The Evolution of Physics: From Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta
― The Evolution of Physics: From Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta
“¿Cómo un hombre va a ser capaz de cuidar su propio caballo, pulir su lanza y su casco, si ha perdido la costumbre de atender a su propia persona, que es su posesión más preciada?”
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“A human being is a spatially and temporally limited piece of the whole of what we call the "universe". He experiences himself and his feelings as separated from the rest, an optical illusion of his consciousness. The quest for liberation from this bondage [or delusion] is the sole object of real religion. Not nurturing the illusion but only overcoming it gives us the attainable measure of inner peace.”
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“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.”
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“When you bury my body, don't build any momentum and keep my hands outside so that the world knows that the person who won the whole world had nothing in his hand while dying.”
― Speech of Alexander the Great
― Speech of Alexander the Great
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