THOUGHT FOR THE DAY - KNOWLEDGE

" There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common."

GENIUS!

"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals
because what they must do is the same
as what they most want to do."

W. H. Auden

Galileo

Descartes

I believe geniuses help shape the world, but not all them are lucky.

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Genius is often linked with misery. Galileo lived in exile, wandered from city to city, and ended up in prison. Descartes also lived in exile, had to serve as a soldier, and died in a foreign land.

Vesalius

Copernicus

Kepler

The French anatomist Andreas Vesalius lived a vagabond's life, was accused of heresy, body-snatching, and dissection, and was on the threshold of execution; he was forced to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and he died in a shipwreck. Copernicus did not dare to publish his discoveries. Kepler never received the pension promised by the emperor.

GREAT MEN!

Here are some facts
for you to weigh in the mind!!!

Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel.
He refused the opportunity, having no head,
he said, for human problems.

Sigmund Freud never learned to read a railway timetable.
He almost always had to be accompanied on a journey.

Louis Pasteur, whose work on wine, vinegar, and beer led to
pasteurization, had an obsessive fear of dirt and infection. He refused
to shake hands, and he carefully wiped plate and glass before dining.

Alexander Graham Bell was working to
improve the telegraph when he invented the telephone.