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tale
«I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.»
«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.»
Author: Marie Curie
(Physicist)
| About:
Science,
Scientists
| Keywords:
fairy, fairy tale, impress, laboratories, laboratory, natural phenomenon, natural science, phenomena, placed, scientist, tale, technician, technicians
«Knowledge is not a series of self consistent theories that converges towards an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth»
Author: Paul Feyerabend
| About:
Knowledge,
Theory
| Keywords:
alternatives, consistent, converge, converged, converges, converging, fairy, fairy tale, incommensurable, incompatible, increasing, mutually, myth, self-consistent, series, tale, theories
«I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.»
«Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.»
«I could a tale unfold whose lightest wordWould harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
freeze, harrow, harrowed, harrowing, harrows, lightest, Spheres, tale, The Harrow, unfold
«Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
drowsy, tale, tedious, vexes, vexing
