February 2012
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on...”
– Terry Pratchett (via beelzebufess)
“But who would upset such a lucid dear? Did I ever mention that her bare arm bore...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (via litdub)
“We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with...”
– Michel de Montaigne (via thecultofgenius)
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The Richard Dimbleby Lecture was brilliant!
You know something was good when you come away from it inspired and invigorated!
Horizon wins.......I'm sorry Camus!!
“Truly, men have given themselves all their good and evil. Truly, they did not...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra (via viciousnessinthekitchen)
“Who knows who you are… A person is a novel: you don’t know how it will end until...”
– We, Yevgeny Zamyatin, 141 (via teacupcastles)
The Online Etymology Dictionary
insideannasmind:
I found this under Marriage:
[W]hen two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition until death do them part.
[G.B. Shaw, preface to “Getting Married,” 1908]
Neuroscience: Memory Formation Triggered by Stem... →
neurosciencestuff:
February 23rd, 2012
Researchers at the RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics have discovered an answer to the long-standing mystery of how brain cells can both remember new memories while also maintaining older ones.
They found that specific neurons in a brain region called the dentate…
“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the old, seek what they sought.”
– Basho, Japanese poet (1644-1694) ~ Illuminations, Zen wisdom (via identify-unique-gezelligheid)
“Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has...”
– David Attenborough (via unejeunedemoiselle)
“A margin of wealth is helpful to a civilisation, but for some mysterious reason...”
– Kenneth Clark, Civilisation (via terminalsigma)
“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition...”
– Spinoza (via jedphelym)
Cat: This massive testicle shoots out of the water and grabs me by the throat!
Lister: He means tentacle.
Rimmer: I hope so.
“As we grow older
The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated
Of...”
– T.S. Elliot, East Coker (via icaught-fire)
“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without...”
– Oscar Wilde (via forgivemycoolyounghistory)
