Sunday, December 31, 2017
Saturday, December 30, 2017
Punctuation
Punctuation
When thoughts, ideas, opinions gush forth like a cascade or a cyclone little do they bother about the twigs and saplings on the way.
The flow and force get prioritized and the recipient is not even in the scheme of things.
I suggest everyone to read one of world’s leading linguist Steven Pinker’s [of Harvard ]‘The sense of style’ -‘The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century’ -from page 284 on Punctuation. This chapter covers very comprehensively the complete width and depth of the uses and usefulness of punctuations.
“ The problem for the writer is that punctuation indicates prosody in some places, syntax in others, and neither of them consistently anywhere…..Even the sticklers cannot agree how to stickle….In 2003 the journalist Lynne Truss in her wonderful book ‘Eats, Shoots &Leaves’ ..decries the punctuation errors she spotted in ads,..newspapers.
In 2004 New Yorker Review the critic Louis Menand decries punctuation errors he spotted in Truss’s book.
In Guardian …the English scholar John Mullan decries the punctuation flaws he spotted in Menand’s review”
The world functions on actions spurred on by thoughts and ideas and not punctuation marks.
Sunday, December 24, 2017
The beautiful art of Kolam or Rangoli
The beautiful art of Kolam or Rangoli
Let us stop grumbling and start
grasping and appreciating whatever is available in whatever form:-
1. First we all need to acknowledge
that there are unique cultural niceties or mastery in different realms in various geographical locations.
2. We all must be happy that there is
lot of interest and revival in some cultural aspects for various reasons.
3. Having said that we must accept our
failure i.e. when we fail to record, document and methodically explain in an idiom [not necessarily linguistically] understandable to
outsiders then we cannot blame
lack of acknowledgment.
4. When civilization marches on its
evolutions in multiple domains certain things get relegated in importance, we must be thankful that they
have not become extinct.
5.Life’s evolutionary aspects and
aspirations are tossed among repetitions, recorded evidences and changes and therefore their [life’s evolutionary aspects and aspirations]
popularity depend on how they manage
to survive all these and they get further promoted through organized institutionalization and constant
propaganda and not through mere desperate vocalization of ethnocentric pride or blinkered belief
systems.
6. “The things that are wrong with the
country today are the sum total of all the things that are wrong with us as individuals” ~Charles W.
Tobey
“We live in a changing universe, and
few things are changing faster than our conception of it”- Timothy Ferris
7. In civilization’s evolutionary
trends which went through various ages like age of cannibalism, age of hunter gatherers, age of sailing to discover new locations, age of religious activities, age of artistic
renaissance, age of industrialization, age of nuclear energy, age of internet, age of IOT etc the older
traditions and activities lose their charm , unfortunately
sometimes even their relevance, unless they happen to be an intrinsic aspect of human activity, more so, in a nation with
lack of economic prosperity, it becomes part of survival aspect of life.
8. In the absence of that some aspects
of tradition and culture are sustained with great difficult by people with aesthetic sensibilities, immense attachment or if such activities
happen to be the only activity they
know to do for their livelihood or they carry on with such activities with ancestral
pride.
9. There are many such activities,
across the globe, which are lingering with lovely pride but within just one or two families or in some remote
villages.
10. In India I can quote Jaladharangam,
abroad I can quote sea silk for example.
11. Even those who know and like such
activities do not have even enough time to appreciate them as more
pressing issues demand their time and attention.
12. In fact, on the contrary, for most
of these cultural or traditional activities which we think is not that much visible, there are plenty
of social networks which give more detailed information
and details.
13.For example you would be surprised
to know groups which discuss how madisaru has to be worn by Iyers and Iyengars, what type of saree must be worn by
Bihari Yadavas and UP Yadavas –and most
of these sites are administered by NRI’s from USA.
14. There are thousands of things which
demand our attention in the radar of daily life wherein we can hardly even think of these things.
15. We can at best have symbolic
festivals and days assigned like Pongal, Ayudapooja, Valentine’s Day, Marghazhi music festival, world book day etc when
we can revisit certain activities and
flood the social media with our likes, leanings and learnings that’s all.
16. In India do we know the number of
folk arts, folk music that are there and how great they are?
17. Are we proud of world’s two unique
dairy products –Avial and Morekzhambu?
18. Why last week I happen to attend a
Nadaswaram concert without mike after almost 40 plus years in a place and what a pleasure it was.
19. In my own very limited estimation
that we can create at least twenty new world’s very attractive tourist destinations for example construct bridges and
roads in the hills around Gokarna,
Murundishwarar near the sea in Karnataka.
20. Despite its predominant role and
extraordinary prevalence and presence no single religion could stop the evolution of new religious movements.
[Erich Fromm, “humans have a need for a
stable frame of reference. Religion apparently fills this need. In effect, humans crave answers to questions that no
other source of knowledge has an
answer to, which only religion may seem to answer. However, a sense of free
will must be given in order for religion to appear healthy. An
authoritarian notion of religion appears detrimental.”]
Friday, December 22, 2017
Happy New Year 2018
Wishing you all A Very Happy New Year 2018 in 18 pages , a different note and narration , some
recapitualtion of old stories but would
make, hopefully a nice journey of sorts. I have not delved into any subject in
detail or specifically . However, everything is for every avid seeker of knowledge,
information and those who have an hunger to grasp facts and reality as they
present themselves and decipher them to understand life as a whole.
1] The above picture Courtesy from : The Origin of (Almost) Everything is a
visualized science book that explains the origin of (almost) everything, like
dark matter Jennifer
Daniel/Nicholas Brealey.
Wonderful book not to be missed, “Graham Lawton in his new book, The Origin
of (Almost) Everything, worked with designer Jennifer Daniel to unravel
dozens of life’s biggest mysteries. Lawton crafts the narration while
Daniel handles the infographics. Together they’re able to answer nagging
questions that have inspired centuries of scientific inquiry’The Origin
of Just About Everything, Visualized]
Above picture courtesy [ http://vunature.com/sky-landscapes-dream-imagination-books-digital-nature-art-clouds-mood-desktop-backgrounds-free/]
“In the end nothing less than the whole of everything can be the truth of anything at all”- William James
Writing and reading
are activities that go together
On doit tout faire pour écrire ce qu'on ne peut pas écrire.
Hélène Cixous
On devrait inventer le verbe éclire
2] I have the habit of writing something really ‘new’ every
year for the New Year.
Sometimes it is too long that people just acknowledge having
received it, seen it, mostly not read, because had they read it they may have
blocked me.
If time permits I would like to revisit the journey of the
past 365 days exclusively through some select books and articles that I have
read both physically and also [mostly] electronically.
3] The purpose is not to give an account of what I have
read, it is a suggestion that those who find time and inclination may do so and
benefit from reading from those sources.
There is some amount of inherent contradiction is usage of
internet where people spend hours and hours sharing sensational and scandalous
political events or celebrity gossips along with repetitive religious materials,
there is nothing wrong in any of them and I am not sitting on judgment on any
of them either but when suggested to go beyond this radar of just forwarding
and recycling the same/similar stuff, most of which feeds on to our
confirmation bias, social sermons [mostly meant for others] and all these comforts
us psychologically- so far so good, people normally say that they do not have
time to read.
This is typical of all escapists’ non-committal cautiousness
not to disturb their confirmation bias, and comfort zones.
However, if we notice it and honestly evaluate the above
activities it is a unique contraction of excessive usages and traffic but
actually underutilization of the medium of internet as most of the material is
a reloading and relocating.
But when given something new or different to read, to reason,
to rethink, to review and to replenish the intellectual perspective there is a
frequent excuse of lack of time.
This
contraction is typical of what Susan Ertz writes, "Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a
rainy Sunday afternoon."
4] So, I mention here some sources because in this vast
world of internet which is a highly crowded place with various things catering
to the tastes of many which prevents any single sieve/filter to narrow down and
select items of things that may be of specific interest to some irrespective of
all the tall claims of many specific and targeted search options.
5] Some of these sources offer a wide variety of worthy content
presented in wonderful communication tools of verbal expressions, marvelous
maps and beautiful data charts.
What I have come across and still what I have narrowed down
to present here is, of course, a tiny portion of vast and varied such similar
or other wonderful resources out there.
6] Unless we
ourselves, consciously start either expanding the radius of radar of our view or
accept opinions even tangentially beyond the circle of our radar then we may be
giving room to neo-homogenizing and institutionalizing control freaks who may
clandestinely mold our opinion like what most of the mass opinion molders do with
catchy statements like these, “vast and intimidating repository of
unindexed confusion. Into this creative chaos we are coming up with a dazzling
mission—“To organize the world’s information and make it universally
accessible”
They will do this with highly empowered tools of
multipronged propaganda mechanisms to ensure a social engineering to suit their
agenda of homogenization.
7] The chief among them
being described in the book “More
Damned Lies and Statistics [though mathematical models can define as well as
decipher many domains of activities].
However, there is also lot of truth in what Joel Best says in his book,
How Numbers Confuse Public Issues by Joel
Best (Author)
“Best identifies different sorts of
numbers that shape how we think about public issues: missing
numbers are relevant but
overlooked; confusing numbers bewilder when they
should inform; scary numbers play to our fears
about the present and the future; authoritative numbers demand
respect they don’t deserve; magical numbers promise
unrealistic, simple solutions to complex problems; and contentious
numbers become the focus of data duels
and statistical wars. The author's use
of pertinent, socially important examples documents the life-altering
consequences of understanding or misunderstanding statistical information. He
demystifies statistical measures by explaining in straightforward prose how
decisions are made about what to count and what not to count, what assumptions
get made, and which figures are brought to our attention.
Best identifies different sorts of numbers that shape how we think about public issues. Entertaining, enlightening, and very timely, this book offers a basis for critical thinking about the numbers we encounter and a reminder that when it comes to the news, people count—in more ways than one.”
Best identifies different sorts of numbers that shape how we think about public issues. Entertaining, enlightening, and very timely, this book offers a basis for critical thinking about the numbers we encounter and a reminder that when it comes to the news, people count—in more ways than one.”
8] There are
some sites that vye with one another for the top slot.
Even , if I
don’t act like a lumber jack editor, who chops ,sometimes strips most of the
content to make it too brief , I am forced to limit myself to a few to ensure
at least partial attention by readers of the present times who prefer ‘Memes’
‘Tweets’ ‘Sms’ etc.
Chief among them are https://www.weforum.org [ for their varied
topics in socio-economic realms and wonderful maps, charts and data analysis
which enable us to grasp the wide bandwidth of a subject in a jiffy] ;the long
reads from The guardian like https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/mainsection/the-long-read
for the in depth insight into the subjects which allow the subject to seep deep
and linger long into our mind that they get etched in our memory for long [some
samples given item 44] ;of course the ever reliable BBC especially its http://www.bbc.com/travel/story and
many more.
9] Being a bibliophile [lover of books] and also more a
lexophile [lover of words] with a crazy obsession for words, etymology and all
nuances of verbal expressions, evolving new trends and nuances in linguistics I
would be failing in my duty towards my own consciousness if I do not
acknowledge the immense work and innumerable research and advances that are
going around in many languages.
Because of my limited knowledge of only a few languages I
would also like to place on record some latest developments as well as some
irresistible but less talked about unique works in the domain of linguistic
devices and word development.
The most exhaustive multi-lingual
lexicon on google platform wherein my
wonderful and scholarly Romanian friend Lucian Velea who motivates me to
write certain things has his blog http://www.omnilexica.com/ and many works
of Steven Pinker , David Crystal [a great linguist David Crystal in his
books WORD,WORDS, WORDS and THE STORIES OF ENGLISH. Here I would like
to reproduce some bits of information like these words science, conscience and
shit all had originally common etymology. I thought for
a longtime that the Britishers were obsessed with sex that’s why they
have named their places like Essex, Sussex , Wessex, Middlesex etc but I learnt
that they refer to only Saxons occupying different directions with
varying dialects. David crystal writes, “It remains a lexicological
puzzle why some words were accepted and some rejected. Wedo not know how to
account for the linguistic ‘survival of the fittest’. Both impede and expede were
introduced during the same period as well as disabuse and disadorn,
but in each of these pairs the first item stayed in the language and the second
did not”.], John Simpson [https://johnsimpson.org/the-word-detective/
.
10] Of course one of the old but best possible palindrome in
the world written a few years ago in Sanskrit the
best palindrome in the world is in Sanskrit language in the book
raghavayadaveeyam see link you can download pdf format http://www.ibiblio.org/sadagopan/ahobilavalli/raghavayadaveeyam.pdf
[In this book if you read the sixty couplet slokas from beginning to end
you get the biography of Lord Rama and
when you read the same 60 slokas backwards you get the biography of Lord
Krishna]
Then we have the: www.Powerthesaurus.com,
and https://www.wordspy.com/
11] Many articles in https://www.weforum.org
Especially the transformation
maps wherein they briefly present the vital issues that need to be addressed.
I have shared and commented on many issues in this forum
12] Every social evolution or society has many things which
may be similar
"This study shows how the sciences and humanities,
which have not always seen eye-to-eye, can actually work together effectively
to uncover general rules that have shaped human history."
13] The following link talks about various issues
, mostly connected with education –its various dimensions and contextually
relevant perceptions about the necessity to create a world of literate masses
and I too I have made many suggestions there.
There too I have contributed some articles
and a comment here
15] The most exhaustive multi-lingual lexicon on google
platform my wonderful and scholarly
Romanian friend Lucian Velea who motivates me to write certain things has
his blog
16] The emerging complications and complexities of global
governance
17] When women seem
to know /see more colours or a huge spectrum of shades of single color men
definitely feel defeated and the textile shop owners turn richer have you
wondered why?
[interview conducted by Lucian velea for miratico]
18] The tragedy of google books
19] What happens behind the computer screens?
20] Crows can recognize you in the crowd what?
21] From Bartleby, the Scrivener a wonderful short story by Herman Melville later on made into an
excellent movie by US film makers the battle of or with CLERKS continues in
Britain
22] What Can a Historian Reveal About Positive Psychology?
23] “Humans are fragile, capable
of much on all ends of the moral spectrum”―Dr.
Brandon Ogbunu
Shared identity plays an important role
24] Can one practice to counteract
the gravitational pull of confirmation bias.
25] Margin of safety matters in many things
26] “I think consciousness comes in
different flavors,” agrees Mather. “Some may have consciousness in a way we may
not be able to imagine.”
27] Certain circumstances and crowd can push away individual
sanity even in very sane men
28] “Nudging is about how choices are presented, what we
call choice architecture. By altering what is the default option, people’s
choices will change. So it all comes down to communication,”
29] Being situated in present realities is more vital for a
leader in any realm
30] Sweet as sugar
First sentence:
What if Roald Dahl and Michael Pollan are right, that the taste of sugar on the
tongue can be a kind of intoxication? Doesn't it suggest the possibility that
sugar itself is an intoxicant, a drug? Imagine a drug that can intoxicate us,
can infuse us with energy, and can do so when taken by mouth. It doesn't have
to be injected, smoked, or snorted for us to experience its sublime and
soothing effects. Imagine that it mixes well with virtually every food and
particularly liquids, and that when given to infants it provokes a feeling of
pleasure so profound that intense that its pursuit becomes a driving force
throughout their lives.
31] Inter cultural milieu of
children
First sentence:
This is me. Italy. My name is Romeo, and I'm called "Meo." I'm eight
years old. Japan. My name is Kei, and I'm called "Kei-chan." I'm nine
years old. Uganda. My name is Daphine, and I'm called "Abwooli." I'm
seven years old. Russia. My name is Oleg, and I'm called "Olezhka."
I'm eight years old. Peru. My name is Ribaldo, and I'm called
"Pirineo." I'm eleven years old. India. My name is Ananya, and I'm
called "Anu." I'm eight years old. Iran. My name is Kian. I'm seven
years old.
32] Negotiating with Giants Paperback – February 10, 2012
Wonderful book with case studies and samples
one may read the reviews here
33] Good mixture of some simple
articles
34] A list from Bloomberg
35] Both content and language are
good in this site though sometimes opinions may be one sided
As a result of the weakness of European countries, populism had advanced in some of them. He insisted that culture goes together with a flourishing economy and military power. Yet, though Africa was advancing, Europe must be praised and safeguarded; it had succeeded in forming a single currency and preventing war among its members.
36] Undoubtedly a great source for nature and environment based articles
https://www.nature.com/
37] Though predominantly leftist in political approach, some of the articles on non political subjects and by those who do not live in cages of political ideology or obsessed with extrapolating everything according to some political ideology are good
https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article5029-books-of-the-year.html
38] Behave: The Biology of
Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky
“Sapolsky
argues that our inborn propensity to notice difference in others and be wary of
those we don’t recognize as part of our “tribe” is the product of brain
chemistry that evolved to keep us safe from strangers. Yet this response is
highly influenced by how we are raised, the people we are exposed to, and the
things we are taught, showing how social factors impact us—even at the neural
level.
The book helps
explain power dynamics, political lying, social comparisons, and social
hierarchies, among other phenomena. By uncovering the mechanisms behind them,
Sapolsky also offers a way forward that includes treating people as
individuals, emphasizing what we have in common, and perspective taking, and
fostering equality in the pursuit of shared goals. His book is a call to all of
us to understand how our brains lead us astray and to use that knowledge to
bring out the best in ourselves”.
39] A very sad story of nature about CHAD
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/04/lake-chad-the-worlds-most-complex-humanitarian-disaster
40] Diamond how it drives on the delicate human vulnerabilities
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-you-ever-tried-to-sell-a-diamond/304575/
41] World’s most
beautiful road
Almost every story of http://www.bbc.com/travel/story is
unique and maintains a very level of originality and pleasant presentations
This particular link
is personally special to me because I happen to travel all the way in this most
beautiful road in the world
and articles like
The Only Person in the World Who Can Weave Sea Silk-meet This
Italian Artist
https://spoonagency.com/academy/the-power-of-real-stories/
43] Intricacies of content marketing
44] It is just not tad too much of
an affection it dad too dear
https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/06/the-distinct-positive-impact-of-a-good-dad/276874/
45] END PAIN FOREVER -HOW A SINGLE GENE COULD BECOME A VOLUME KNOB FOR HUMAN SUFFERING
51] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/mar/15/stranger-in-the-woods-christopher-knight-hermit-maine
52] Of course the daily dose from www.brainprickings.com
53] Excellent site for books from many languages
54] The
worldwide catalog of library resources
55] Social Engineering preferably and ultimately must
deliver a wisdom that enhances life of every species.
56] One of the previous year’s New Year message I wrote the
following to inject real sense of newness through a realization of reality. It
is very long write up with many links but then those who read it , I am sure
would come out both more exhausted and enlightened
Best wishes and regards
Balayogi
The greatest
mistakes in our relationships, overall perceptions and evaluations
are because we read three fourths, listen half, understand quarter,
think zero and are indifferent to the impact of our actions, reactions,
thoughts and words on humanity and the environment.
Saturday, December 16, 2017
SELF
Synergy of
Everything, everyone and environment with
Love for all life is the
Fulcrum and foundation of all selves.
“In the end nothing less than the whole of
everything can be the truth of anything at all”- William James
The fact is that each individual SELF unravels
many facets, dimensions and dynamics of multiple aspects of LIFE as
lived and experienced through various domains, many frames of
references at different levels of consciousness with varying
degrees of intensities , involvements, imaginations and interactions.
In this churning
process it explains and enhances many thoughts, ideas, ideals, concepts,
philosophies, theories, hypothesis, premises by injecting more life
to all of them by ensconcing them in appropriate contexts
and encapsulating them with impactful articulation through
wonderful expressions physical, psychological, spiritual, artistic as well as through words and various other
forms of expressions.
Give yourself enough time to read all the links indicated
above and the sub-links therein to get a comprehensive idea about the SELF.
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Writing why I do it ?
When someone
asked me how , irrespective of whatever you do or however busy you are , you
seem to read and to write on a daily basis , if not hourly basis.
I told him
there is an inherent need to listen to, to read, to learn, to follow ideas, to generate
ideas, to internalise the wisdom that we learn from others and also to write our own reactions or perceptions.
"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self"- Cyril Connolly
"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self"- Cyril Connolly
The folowing quotes
flashed across my mind and I replied to him in a jiffy, of course some of the
quotes are obsessively struck in my bone marrow like the last seven quotes.
I told him to
chew on these for the next 24 hours and assimilate what they do to him.
Starting with a very haughty quote of Tom Stoppard, “My whole life is waiting for the questions to
which I have prepared answers” , and meandering through the following.
1. There was a
time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that
the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.-Reinhold
Niebuhr
2. “Nothing
that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved
by hope.
Nothing which
is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of
history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
Nothing we do,
however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by
love.
No virtuous act
is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our
standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love which is
forgiveness.” ― Reinhold Niebuhr, The Irony of American History
3. Write close
to the bone, write until you’re not thinking in words anymore -Bonnie Friedman
4. Find the key
emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story. F. Scott
Fitzgerald
5. You should
know more than what you put on the page. The reader can sense that. SUSAN
ORLEAN
6. You may not
control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced
by them. ― Maya Angelou
7. There is
nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
~Ansel Adams
8. “Open your
mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other ¬people. Nothing
that happens to a writer–however happy, however tragic–is ever wasted.” -P.D.
James
9. Just trust
your own voice. And keep exploring the things that are interesting to you.
Nikki GIOVANNI
10. The act of
writing puts you in confrontation with yourself, which is why I think writers
assiduously avoid writing. FRAN LEBOWITZ
11. If you
really want this writing life, don't ever give up Bill Bibo, Jr
Writing is the
only way I have to explain my own life to myself. CONROY
12. You are
your own stories, free to imagine and experience what it means to be human
without fear-T. Morrison
13. I was made
for another planet altogether. I mistook the way. ~Simone de Beauvoir
14. You never
know what you will learn ’til you start writing. Then you discover truths you
never knew existed. ANITA BROOKNER
15. Before you
can write anything, you have to notice something. JOHN IRVING
16. A writer
fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not
moved. Gerard de Marigny
17. Poetry can
break open locked chambers of possibility, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge
desire-A. Rich
18. "The spirit of Advaita is not to keep away from anything, but
to keep in tune with everything." -
Swami Chinmayananda
19. “In the end nothing less than the whole of
everything can be the truth of anything at all”- William James
20. “We live in a
changing universe, and few things are changing faster than our conception of
it”-Timothy Ferris
21. “There is no tomorrow. There is only a
planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies”-Robert
Brault
22. “Evolution itself
is an open ended and indeterminate process”… “Given the remarkable progress in
our understanding of biochemistry, molecular biology, and evolution as a whole
… we have failed to develop concepts, ideas, even a language that could capture
the dance of this life” - Guy Murchie
23. “Humans have a need for a stable frame of
reference. Religion apparently fills this need. In effect, humans crave answers
to questions that no other source of knowledge has an answer to, which only
religion may seem to answer. However, a sense of free will must be given in
order for religion to appear healthy. An authoritarian notion of religion appears
detrimental.”- Erich Fromm,
24. विद्या ददाति विनयं विनयाद्याति पात्रताम् ।
पात्रत्वाद्धनमाप्नोति धनाद्धर्मं ततः सुखम् ॥ ५ ॥
vidyA dadAti vinayaM, vinayAdyAti pAtratAM |
pAtratvAddhanamApnoti, dhanAddharmaMtataH sukhaM || 5 ||
pAtratvAddhanamApnoti, dhanAddharmaMtataH sukhaM || 5 ||
(true/complete) knowledge gives
discipline[humility], from discipline [humility] comes worthiness, from
worthiness one gets wealth, from wealth (one does) good deeds, from that
(comes) joy.
This particular quote is an outer shell of the
egg which contains these:-
"All intelligent thoughts have already
been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again." -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If I have seen further than others, it is by
standing upon the shoulders of giants”- Isaac Newton
Shakespeare once said “I have bought
golden opinions from all sorts of people”.
William Lyon Phelps puts it, “One
of our secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute”.
Or as Thomas H. Huxley says, “Sit down
before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived
notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will
learn nothing.”
We must remember that we owe to so many souls that has made our evolution to enhance from Kuru disease generators [this disease happens because of cannibalism] to cyber Guru Venerators.
