„An air of mystery surrounds his researches, lying, as they do, chiefly in depths to which the far-seeing eye of the telescope alone penetrates.“

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— Richard Anthony Proctor

Quelle: Saturn and its System (2nd ed 1882), Chapter 1, p. 2

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Richard Anthony Proctor

britischer Astronom 1837 - 1888

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„The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant.“

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— Kate Chopin American author 1850 - 1904

„Lying rumours do not penetrate farther than our ears.“

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— Aeschines Attic orator; statesman -389 - -314 v.Chr

Aeschines, De Falsa Legatione, 149.

„Therefore the sight that is granted to your world penetrates within the Eternal Justice as the eye into the sea; for though from the shore it sees the bottom, in the open sea it does not, and yet the bottom is there but the depth conceals it.“

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— Dante Alighieri, buch Paradiso

Canto XIX, lines 58–63 (tr. Sinclair).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso

„The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.“

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— B.F. Skinner American behaviorist 1904 - 1990

Contingencies of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis (1969).
Quelle: Contingencies Of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis

„Jace,” she said. “Why are you doing this to me?”

“Because you’re lying to me. And you’re lying to yourself.” Jace’s eyes were blazing, and even though his hands were stuffed into his pockets, she could see that they were knotted into fists.“

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— Cassandra Clare, buch City of Ashes

Quelle: City of Ashes

„When you come to be sensibly touched, the scales will fall from your eyes; and by the penetrating eyes of love you will discern that which your other eyes will never see.“

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— François Fénelon Catholic bishop 1651 - 1715

Quoted by Marilyn Ferguson in The Aquarian Conspiracy, Chapter 5 (1980)

„The present painter is concerned not with his own feelings or with the mystery of his own personality but with the penetration into the world-mystery. His imagination is therefore attempting to dig into metaphysical secrets.“

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— Barnett Newman American artist 1905 - 1970

Quelle: 1940 - 1950, The Plasmic Image 1. 1943-1945, p. 140

„To see is one thing; to picture or visualise is another. A person can see things, only when his eyes are open, and when his surroundings are illuminated; but he can have pictures in his mind’s eye, when his eyes are shut and when the world is dark.“

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— Gilbert Ryle, buch The Concept of Mind

Quelle: The Concept of Mind (1949), Ch. VIII: Imagination, (2) Picturing and Seeing

„A guy can do far far worse than surrounding himself with people who restore his faith in humanity.“

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— David Levithan American author and editor 1972

Quelle: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

„Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye, that is a lens which opens reaches in the unknown, and reveals orbs which no telescope, however skilfully constructed, could do; nay, which brings to view even the throne of God, and pierces the nebulous distance where are those eternal verities in which true life consists.“

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— Henry Ward Beecher American clergyman and activist 1813 - 1887

Quelle: Life Thoughts (1858), p. 20

„The present painter is concerned not with his own feelings or with the mystery of his own personality but with the penetration into the world mystery. His imagination is therefore attempting to dig into metaphysical secrets. To that extend his art is concerned with the sublime. It is a religious art which through symbols will catch the basic truth of life which is its sense of tragedy.“

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— Barnett Newman American artist 1905 - 1970

Quelle: 1940 - 1950, The Plasmic Image 2. 1943-1945, p. 124

„Man is a mystery, a mystery to the investigating mind of the researcher into nature; but more so indeed is man a mystery to himself. Yet there is a solution of this mystery — a solution which is not new, which is older than the enduring hills.“

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— Gottfried de Purucker Author, Theosophist 1874 - 1942

Ch 2
Man in Evolution (1941)

„So his life has flowed
From its mysterious urn a sacred stream,
In whose calm depth the beautiful and pure
Alone are mirrored; which, though shapes of ill
May hover round its surface, glides in light,
And takes no shadow from them.“

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— Thomas Noon Talfourd British politician 1795 - 1854

Act i. Sc. 1.
Ion (1835)

„The spirit has no voice, because where there is a voice there is a body, and where there is a body space is occupied, and this prevents the eye from seeing what is placed behind that space; hence the surrounding air is filled by the body, that is by its image.“

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— Leonardo Da Vinci Italian Renaissance polymath 1452 - 1519

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

„Church was doing what he often did when dropped - lying on his back with all four legs in the air, pretending to be dead in order to induce guilt in his owners.“

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— Cassandra Clare, The City of Lost Souls

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„One who opens his eyes and sees. To be good at seeing. How difficult not to see anything but the visible. And nothing will be left but dust and manure. Attempting the impossible. Approach the mystery.“

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— Patrick Swift British artist 1927 - 1983

Portuguese Notes (Gandon Editions Biography 1993).
Notebooks

„Few men, whatever their creed, would now seek their geology in the books of their religion, or, on the other hand, would fancy that the laboratory or the microscope could help them to penetrate the mysteries which hang over the nature and the destiny of the soul of man. ... We live in a small, bright oasis of knowledge, surrounded on all sides by a vast, unexplored region of impenetrable mystery.“

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— Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury British politician 1830 - 1903

Speech to the British Association (6 August 1894), quoted in The Times (9 August 1894), p. 6
1890s

„See with your soul and not your eyes
because to dance with the beasts you
must penetrate their disguise.“

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— P. C. Cast American writer 1960

„A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.“

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— Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Quelle: Walden

„I have a simple algorithm, which is, wherever you see paid researchers instead of grad students, that's not where you want to be doing research.“

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— Larry Page American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur 1973

Plenary speech, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_3OCq_vTWM AAAS Annual conference, San Francisco (February 2007).

„An air of mystery surrounds his researches, lying, as they do, chiefly in depths to which the far-seeing eye of the telescope alone penetrates.“

Richard Anthony Proctor

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