Scarred By Stars
by Erin Elizabeth Kelly-Moen — Read all 1,670 poems by Erin Elizabeth Kelly-Moen
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Sometimes, you can be
Scarred by stars
Of your own making
When Manned by rockets.
Erin Elizabeth Kelly-Moen
© Copyright 8/07
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Be safe,
Karen
Peace be with you
William
Quotes by Einstein....
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Reader's Digest. Oct. 1977.
I don't believe in mathematics.
Quoted in Carl Seelig. Albert Einstein.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
On Science.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
What I Believe.
The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.
Out of My Later Years.
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality?
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Quoted in J R Newman, The World of Mathematics (New York 1956).
The world we have made, as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far, creates problems we cannot solve at the same level of thinking at which we created them.
Quoted in Des MacHale, Wisdom (London, 2002).
It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiousity of inquiry.
Quoted in H Eves Return to Mathematical Circles (Boston 1988).
The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.
Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht.
God is subtle, but he is not malicious.
Inscribed in Fine Hall, Princeton University.
Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.
Marvin
Kathy
'Cause man isn't the God he thinks he is...LOL
Excellent.
(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.