"I live neither in the past nor in the future. I am the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity." Igor Stravinsky
"The uninitated imagine that one must await inspiration in order to create. That is a mistake. I am far from saying that there is no such thing as inspiration; quite te opposite. It is found as a driving force in every kind of human activity, and is in no wise peculiar to artists. But that force is only brought into action by an effort, and that effort is work." - Igor Stravisnky, An Autobiography "The city is the cradlebof culture, the birthplace of nearly all our most cherished ideas." Peter Watson, Ideas "Math is not a race or a contest; it's just you playing around with your own imagination." Paul Lockhart, Measurement. "The answer had been given to me by life itself, in my knowledge of what is right and what is wrong. And that knowledge I did not arrive at in any way, it was given to me as to all men, given, because I could not have got it from anywhere." Leo Tolstoy, Ana Karenina "Production is not something physical, material, and external; it is a spiritual and intellectual phenomenon. Its essential requisites are not human labor and external natural forces and things, but the decision of the mind to use these factors for the attainment of ends." Mises, Human Action. "Far above the millions that come and pass away tower the pioneers, the men whose deeds and ideas cut out new paths for mankind" Mises, Human Action, Ch.7 "It is ideas that make history, and not history that makes ideas." Ludwig von Misses, Human Action. "This process of giving outselves up to a difficult task and finding that by pouring ourselves into it we are met with a solution that satisfies and exceeds our expectations is one that has a religious analogy." Gelwick, The Way of Discovery. "It (Principia) is a challenge, and an exhilirating challenge. But it is one that every student is equal to, if the adventure is approached with an adventurous spirit." Newton's Principia: The Central Argument. |