“It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.”
― The Histories
― The Histories
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.”
― Selected Works
― Selected Works
“The saddest aspect of life is that there is no one on earth whose happiness is such that he won't sometimes wish he were dead rather than alive.”
― The Histories
― The Histories
“The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.”
― Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
― Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
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