The Hindu
- 1936 Olympics
Every member of the team was feeling the strain of the defeat to the Germans in the practice match, and no one was in his usual self. I never saw a hockey team from India, where the game is definitely of a superior standard compared to the rest of the world, being so obsessed on the eve of the match. The players were nervous as to what the result of the match would be, which was heightened by the feeling that the burden of the country's honor was on their shoulders.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The whole problem of the Jews exists only in nation states, for here their energy and higher intelligence, their accumulated capital of spirit and will, gathered from generation to generation through a long schooling in suffering, must become so preponderant as to arouse mass envy and hatred. In almost all contemporary nations, therefore - in direct proportion to the degree to which they act up nationalistially.
Nietzsche
- The Gay Science
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us?
Oscar Wilde
- Death
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and to listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
Immanuel Kant
- Critique of Pure Reason
Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did not exist as a foundation a priori. Without this presupposition we could not represent to ourselves that things exist together at one and the same time, or at different times, that is, contemporaneously, or in succession.
Tukey
- Big or small - you need the right data
The data may not contain the answer. The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.
Dan Myer
- The key challenge in data science
Ask yourselves, what problem have you solved, ever, that was worth solving, where you knew all of the given information in advance? Where you didn't have a surplus of information and have to filter it out, or you didn't have insufficient information and have to go find some?
Theodore Roosevelt
- Why do data science
It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.
Eyewitness
- 1958 Lituya Bay Megatsunami
With the first jolt, I tumbled out of the bunk and looked toward the head of the bay where all the noise was coming from. The mountains were shaking something awful, with slide of rock and snow, but what I noticed mostly was the glacier, the north glacier, the one they call Lituya Glacier. I know you can't ordinarily see that glacier from where I was anchored. People shake their heads when I tell them I saw it that night. I can't help it if they don't believe me.
Max Lucado
- Life
When you're in the final days of your life, what will you want? Will you hug that college degree in the walnut frame? Will you ask to be carried to the garage so you can sit in your car? Will you find comfort in rereading your financial statement? Of course not. What will matter then will be people. If relationships will matter most then, shouldn't they matter most now?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Opium
This fragment with a good deal more, not recoverable, composed, in a sort of Revery brought on by two grains of Opium taken to check a dysentery, at a Farm House between Porlock and Linton, a quarter of a mile from Culbone Church, in the fall of they year, 1797.
Georg Steller
- Natural Substances
The fly agarics are dried and eaten in large pieces. After about half an hour, the person becomes completely intoxicated and experiences extraordinary visions. Those who cannot afford the high price of the mushrooms drink the urine of those who have eaten, whereupon they become intoxicated, if not more so.
Henry Alfred Jennings
- Eyewitness Account
I am a milk carrier. Looking at the prisoners now, I am unable to say one way or the other whether those are the men I saw that day in High Street, Deptford.
Mark Twain
- Fingerprints
Every human being carries with him from his cradle to his grave certain physical marks which do not change their character and by which he can always be identified. And that without shade of doubt or question. These marks are his signature, his physiological autograph so to speak, and this autograph cannot be counterfeited, nor can he disguise it or hide it in any way, nor can it become illegible by the wear and mutation of time.
Professor Edmond Locard
- Locard's Exchange Principle
Wherever he steps, whatever he touches, whatever he leaves, even unconsciously, will serve as a silent witness against him. Not only his fingerprints or his footprints, but his hair, the fibers from his clothes, the glass he breaks, the tool mark he leaves, the paint he scratches, the blood or semen he deposits or collects. All of these and more, bear mute witness against him. This is evidence that does not forget. It is not confused by the excitement of the moment.
Justice Khanna
- Making of India's Constitution
If the Indian constitution is our heritage bequeathed to us by our founding fathers, no less are we, the people of India, the trustees and custodians of the values which pulsate within its provisions! A constitution is not a parchment of paper, it is a way of life and has to be lived up to. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty and in the final analysis, its only keepers are the people. Imbecility of men, history teaches us, always invites the impudence of power.
Gregory David Roberts
- Shantaram
One of the reasons why we crave love, and seek it so desperately, is that love is the only cure for loneliness, and shame, and sorrow. But some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.
Eleanor Roosevelt
- Happiness
Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively. After a short time, a very short time, there would be little that one really enjoyed. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to tomorrow is giving pleasure to other people.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Sterilization
It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. Three generations of embeciles are enough.
Stephan, 2010
The controversy surrounding the relative significance of strongly beneficial and deleterious mutations in evolution has stimulated research activities for almost a decade. Despite efforts from many theorists and empiricists, fundamental questions are still open, in particular for the population genetics of regions of reduced recombination.
