Steven Smith

“After the death of Archimedes in 212 BCE, the topic of motion was effectively abandoned; it did not resurface for another 1,400 years, when Gerard of Brussels revived the mathematical works of Euclid and Archimedes and came very close to defining speed as a ratio of distance to time.”
― Joseph Mazur, Zeno's Paradox: Unraveling the Ancient Mystery Behind the Science of Space and Time

“I always know what to expect of the things of Mother Earth. Sometimes they are cruel, but it is hard, clean cruelty. They don’t torture you with their own weakness.”
― Anna Lee Waldo, Sacajawea

“The more you knew and understood about the world, the more aware you were that it’s a cruel and shitty place. Ignorance really is bliss.”
― Stephen "Steve-O" Glover, Professional Idiot: A Memoir

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
― Michael Rank, The Most Productive People in History: 18 Extraordinarily Prolific Inventors, Artists, and Entrepreneurs, From Archimedes to Elon Musk