The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances." — Aristotle
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. –Aristotle
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.
As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.
The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.
To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception.
Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Think of your existing power as the exponent in an equation that determines the value of information. The more power you have, the more additional power you derive from the new data.
I cannot transfer my abilities to anyone, but I can think of quicker ways with which to help people develop numerical aptitude.
If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with the brain. The more you use it, the better it becomes.
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them
Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about.
I think that the people who are trying to shut down WikiLeaks are going to have to accept this as a fact of reality that cryptography allows you to do this kind of thing.
I am not convinced that lack of encryption is the primary problem. The problem with the Internet is that it is meant for communications among non-friends.
Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables.
[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.
