The paradox is the seed of truth. This germ just needs a fertile ground to flourish and bear fruit.

Leo Errera

Categorized in : Needs Truth Fruit

Dieu, c'est le voile mystérieux sous lequel nous cachons notre ignorance de la cause première.

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To succeed in science, one must doubt; to succeed in life, one must be sure.

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La vérité est sur une courbe dont notre ésprit suit éternellement l'asymptote. Truth is on a curve whose asymptote our spirit follows eternally.

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"Le génie n'est qu'une longue patience", a dit Buffon. Cela est bien incomplet. Le génie, c'est l'impatience dans les idées et la patience dans les faits : une imagination vive et un jugement calme; quelque chose comme un liquide en ébullition dans un vase qui reste toujours froid. "Genius is just enduring patience," said Buffon. This is far from complete. Genius is impatience in ideas and patience with the facts: a lively imagination and a calm judgment, rather like a liquid boiling in a cup that remains cold.

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Pour réussir dans la science, il faut douter; pour réussir dans la vie, il faut être sûr. To succeed in science, one must doubt; to succeed in life, one must be sure.

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Isn't this the perfect image of the noblest selflessness, and thereby presents an example and a model? It should be inspiring: like them, we are the units of a great social body, like them, we can serve and contemplate death with equanimity, subordinating our individual consciousness to collective consciousness.

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Civilization is the art of creating useless needs.

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God is the mysterious veil under which we hide our ignorance of the cause.

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Truth is different from error in two respects: it is a little harder to prove and more difficult to admit.

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Truth is on a curve whose asymptote our spirit follows eternally.

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"Genius is just enduring patience," said Buffon. This is far from complete. Genius is impatience in ideas and patience with the facts: a lively imagination and a calm judgment, rather like a liquid boiling in a cup that remains cold.

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What are we doing down here? We prepare the blossoms of tomorrow. We all manure future humanity.

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The altruism of foresters can serve as a motto for humanity in general: "We reap what we have not sown. We sow what we do not reap."

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