11/24/08
There are four chief obstacles to grasping truth, which hinder every man, however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to knowledge; namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and concealment of our ignorance accompanied by the ostentatious display of our knowledge.
--- Roger Bacon (1214 - 1294)
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
--- William Blake (1757 - 1827)
Those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.
--- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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