A house without books is like a room without windows.
- Horace Mann.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero.
Showing posts with label research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label research. Show all posts
Thursday, 1 October 2015
Sunday, 29 June 2014
Pale Blue Dot: a Vision of the Human Future in Space, by Carl Sagan ... [excerpt]
From this
distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But
for us, it's different. Look again at that dot. That's here, that's home,
that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard
of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our
joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic
doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and
destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love,
every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of
morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every
"supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species
lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
- Carl Sagan
[Pale Blue Dot: a Vision of the Human Future in Space].
Saturday, 27 July 2013
Caught up on some reading …
I still have a pile of
fiction to get through, which is nothing new. I always have a pile of fiction waiting to be read.
Recently, I’ve switched to
factual books for both research and personal enlightenment:
Japan Through the Looking Glass, by Alan MacFarlane:
China by Bike: Taiwan, Hong Kong, China's East Coast, by Roger Grigsby:
Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away: Teachings on
Impermanence and the End of Suffering, by Ajahn
Chah:
Solo Training, by Loren W. Christensen:
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