This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara
What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land.
Will |
E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher
If human vices such as greed and envy are systematically cultivated, the inevitable result is nothing less than a collapse of intelligence. A man driven by greed or envy loses the power of seeing things as they really are, of seeing things in their roundness and wholeness, and his very successes become failures. If whole societies become infected by these vices, they may indeed achieve astonishing things but they become increasingly incapable of solving the most elementary problems of everyday existence.
Erwin Schrödinger, fully Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger
BohrÂ’s standpoint, that a space-time description is impossible, I reject a limine. Physics does not consist only of atomic research, science does not consist only of physics, and life does not consist only of science. The aim of atomic research is to fit our empirical knowledge concerning it into our other thinking. All of this other thinking, so far as it concerns the outer world, is active in space and time. If it cannot be fitted into space and time, then it fails in its whole aim and one does not know what purpose it really serves.
Will |
A glimpse of Breidablick, whose walls are light as e'en the silver on the cliff it shone; of dark blue steel its columns azure height and the big altar was one agate stone. It seemed as if the air upheld alone its dome, unless supporting spirits bore it, studded with stars Odin's spangled throne, a light inscrutable burned fiercely o'er it; in sky-blue mantles, sat the gold-crowned gods before it.
Lord |
Look for good things about where you are, and in your state of appreciation, you lift all self-imposed limitations - and all limitations are self-imposed - and you free yourself for the receiving of wonderful things.
Etty Hillesum, formally Ester "Etty" Hillesum
Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.
Will |
Who is a piece of stick in youth will be a block of wood in old age.
The person who grew up without correction will find his mouth slipping instead of his foot.