Philosophy, encounters, and interesting coffee shop
- From Star Treck:
_ Seek out new life and civilizations.
_ Non-interference is the prime directive.
_ Keep your phaser set on stun.
_ Humans are highly illogical.
_ Live long and prosper.
_ Having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting; it is not logical but it is often true.
_ Tribbles hate Klingons (and Klingons hate Tribbles).
_ Don’t put all your ranking officers in one shuttlecraft.
_ When your logic fails, trust a hunch.
_ Even in your own world, sometimes we are aliens.
_ When going out into the Universe, remember: “Boldly go where no man has gone before!”
- “La buvette” – St Denis d’Oleron, on the beach north of the Harbor, good expresso and nice view on Fort Boyard in the bay.
- A fairly robust optimization procedure: “Il est urgent d’attendre” J.Baranger gentleman’ mathematician.
- “French Riviera Coffee” – one block north of 59th on Chimney Rock in Houston: ask for the orange brioche.
- "I have the result, but I do not yet know how to get it." – Gauss (1777-1855).
- L’hotel des halles, on the main square in Nolay: good breakfast and friendly burgundy.
- Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
- Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. Henri Poincare (1854 - 1912).
- There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science. Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895).
- I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. Marie Curie (1867 - 1934).
- In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs. Sir Francis Darwin (1848 - 1925), Eugenics Review, April 1914.
- Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects.
- Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973).
- To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. Joseph Chilton Pearce.
- One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. Andre Gide (1869 - 1951).
- The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. Arthur Koestler (1905 - 1983).
- If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent. Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727).
- The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922).
- An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. Anatole France (1844 - 1924).
- Only the educated are free. Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses.
- An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962).
- Imagination is more important than knowledge... Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).