"I've always heard the old folks say that if you don't know how to enjoy good luck when it comes, you shouldn't complain if it passes you by.” - in Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Friday, February 21, 2025
Monday, December 23, 2024
Humility
"Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of oneself." - T.S. Eliot
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Deterence
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." - George Washington, First Annual Address to Congress, January 8, 1790
Friday, September 20, 2024
Essence of Science
“That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.” ― Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Anxious Generation
"We are overprotective in the real world, and underprotective in the digital world." - Jonathan Haidt
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Friday, December 22, 2023
Free Will and the Past
"You will change your mind, but you are not free.
Your moment of freedom was yesterday.
You made a decision. You set in motion
Forces in your life and in the lives of others
Which cannot be reversed. That is one consideration.
And another is this: it is a serious matter
To bring someone back from the dead."
-T.S. Eliot (in the play The Cocktail Party)