„Physics and psychology are going somewhere, but where they do not know. But… they are traveling“
Essay on Atomism: From Democritus to 1960 (1961)
Kontext: Physics and psychology are going somewhere, but where they do not know. But... they are traveling from: Democritan permanent particles and the Cartesian mind necessarily aware.... they are both traveling away from the same point of origin and in the same general direction: from the isolation of supposedly permanent "substances" towards the identification of changing relations potentially affecting everything; briefly, from substance to changing relations and structures.
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„Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.“
— Paul Theroux American travel writer and novelist 1941
„If you don't know where you are going you will end up somewhere else“
— Yogi Berra American baseball player, manager, coach 1925 - 2015
Variante: If you don't know where you are going,
you'll end up someplace else.
Quelle: The Yogi Book : I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said
„The only way to get somewhere, you know, is to figure out where you're going before you go there.“
— John Updike, buch Rabbit, Run
Rabbit, Run (1960)
„If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.“
— Laurence J. Peter Canadian eductor 1919 - 1990
Quelle: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 125
— Warren G. Harding American politician, 29th president of the United States (in office from 1921 to 1923) 1865 - 1923
Remark to Judson Welliver, as quoted in Francis Russell (1968) The Shadow of Blooming Grove.
1920s
— Richard Feynman American theoretical physicist 1918 - 1988
Sir Douglas Robb Lectures, University of Auckland (1979); lecture 1, "Photons: Corpuscles of Light" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLQ2atfqk2c&t=24m2s
Kontext: There's a kind of saying that you don't understand its meaning, 'I don't believe it. It's too crazy. I'm not going to accept it.'… You'll have to accept it. It's the way nature works. If you want to know how nature works, we looked at it, carefully. Looking at it, that's the way it looks. You don't like it? Go somewhere else, to another universe where the rules are simpler, philosophically more pleasing, more psychologically easy. I can't help it, okay? If I'm going to tell you honestly what the world looks like to the human beings who have struggled as hard as they can to understand it, I can only tell you what it looks like.
— Dogen Japanese Zen buddhist teacher 1200 - 1253
As translated in The Zen Poetry of Dōgen : Verses from the Mountain of Eternal Peace (1997) by Steven Heine, p. 61
— Eric Mervyn Lindsay Irish astronomer 1907 - 1974
Quoted in [The Irish Astronomical Journal, Volume 12, Irish Astronomical Society, 1975, 150]
— John Ashbery poet from the United States 1927 - 2017
A Wave (1984)
Quelle: "At North Farm" ( Electronic Poetry Center: At North Farm https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/ashbery/north.html)
„somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond“
— E.E. Cummings American poet 1894 - 1962
Quelle: 100 Selected Poems
— Augusten Burroughs American writer 1965
Quelle: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
— Grace Hopper American computer scientist and United States Navy officer 1906 - 1992
Grace Hopper on Late Night with David Letterman (2 October 1986) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-vcErOPofQ
Kontext: There's something you learn in your first boot-camp, or training camp: If they put you down somewhere with nothing to do, go to sleep — you don't know when you'll get any more.
— W. Ross Ashby British psychiatrist 1903 - 1972
W. Ross Ashby, "Review of Analytical Biology, by G. Sommerhoff." In: Journal of Mental Science Vol 98 (1952), p. 88; As cited in Peter M. Asaro (2008)
„Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.“
— T.S. Eliot 20th century English author 1888 - 1965
— Arthur Hugh Clough English poet 1819 - 1861
Where Lies the Land to Which the Ship Would Go? http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/491.html, st. 1 (1852).
— Lily Allen English singer, songwriter, actress, and television presenter 1985
This song, Somewhere Only We Know, originated with the group Keane, in 2004, although Allen did a very popular version of it, on a YouTube video in 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mer6X7nOY_o.
Misattributed
— Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials trilogy
Lyra, in Ch. 1 : The Decanter of Tokay
His Dark Materials, The Golden Compass (1995)
