Ammar

“What an interesting and exciting thought. We may be only one of millions of advanced civilizations. Unfortunately, space being spacious, the average distance between any two of these civilizations is reckoned to be at least two hundred light-years, which is a great deal more than merely saying it makes it sound. It means for a start that even if these beings know we are here and are somehow able to see us in their telescopes, they’re watching light that left Earth two hundred years ago. So they’re not seeing you and me. They’re watching the French Revolution and Thomas Jefferson and people in silk stockings and powdered wigs—people who don’t know what an atom is, or a gene, and who make their electricity by rubbing a rod of amber with a piece of fur and think that’s quite a trick. Any message we receive from them is likely to begin “Dear Sire,” and congratulate us on the handsomeness of our horses and our mastery of whale oil. Two hundred light-years is a distance so far beyond us as to be, well, just beyond us.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“والمتعصب لا يدري أنه متعصب ، لأنه لا يقرأ دوافعه جيدا ، وهو يرى تعصب الآخرين الذي هو عنده " كالشمس في رابعة النهار " ! أما تعصبه هو ، فهو تمسك وثبات وحرص على الحق والتزام بالدليل !”
― سلمان العودة, كيف نختلف

“ليس هناك كتابا أقرأه و لا أستفيد منه شيئا جديدا ، فحتى الكتاب التافه أستفيد من قراءته ، أني تعلمت شيئا جديدا هو ما هي التفاهة ؟ و كيف يكتب الكتاب التافهون ؟ و فيم يفكرون ؟”
― عباس محمود العقاد

“فكر في السعادة واصطنعها ، تجد السعادة ملك يديك”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry