Bizarre, Almost Useless and Interesting Facts about our World - History. The Bed of Procrustes. The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms is rich in intellectually satisfying and considered thoughts from the meditations of Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
The title, based on the Procrustes of Greek mythology that stretched or chopped off the legs of guests to make them fit his bed, is analogous of his observation of the human tendency to try to make fit that which we understand and lop off that which we don’t. “We humans,” he writes, “facing limits of knowledge, and things we do not observe, the unseen and the unknown, resolve the tension by squeezing life and the world into crisp commoditized ideas, reductive categories, specific vocabularies, and prepackaged narratives, which, on the occasion, has explosive consequences.”
His thoughts are mostly insightful, prophetic, humbling, disarming, or instructive and only occasionally sound like justifications. All are worth reading and ruminating over. They help us to face a world we frequently don’t understand. 15 Famous Quotes on Creativity. The Sifter spent last night poring over hundreds of famous and inspirational quotes on creativity.
Below is a collection of our 15 favourites. Let us know which ones resonate with you the most, and feel free to counter any you disagree with. There are infinite views on creativity, here are fifteen famous ones for inspiration on your next endeavour :) Pablo Picasso “Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up” – Pablo Picasso Vincent Van Gogh “If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced” – Vincent Van Gogh Salvador Dali “Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it” – Salvador Dali. Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Daniel Patrick Moynihan Daniel Patrick Moynihan (March 16, 1927 – March 26, 2003) was a four-term U.S.
Senator, ambassador, administration official, and academic. Sourced[edit] From the wild Irish slums of the 19th century Eastern seaboard, to the riot-torn suburbs of Los Angeles, there is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future -- that community asks for and gets chaos. Crime, violence, unrest, disorder -- most particularly the furious, unrestrained lashing out at the whole social structure -- that is not only to be expected; it is very near to inevitable.
Attributed[edit] Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. Unsourced[edit] If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing. External links[edit] Educate the 'Net Generation' - david warlick's posterous. Top 10 Mark Twain #Quotes *INFOGRAPHIC* Ernest Rutherford - Quote. All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, OM PC FRS (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a nuclear physicist from New Zealand. He was known as the "father" of nuclear physics. He pioneered the orbital theory of the atom in his discovery of Rutherford scattering off the nucleus with the gold foil experiment. See also: Radio-activity (1904) Quotes[edit] Radioactivity is shown to be accompanied by chemical changes in which new types of matter are being continually produced. ... An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid. When we have found how the nucleus of atoms is built up we shall have found the greatest secret of all — except life. Radioactivity is shown to be accompanied by chemical changes in which new types of matter are being continually produced. ...
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