quotes about Mapping

last updated: November 28, 2023

Nature is the chart of God, mapping out all His attributes.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

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“Agnostics are people who, like myself, confess themselves to be hopelessly ignorant concerning a variety of matters, about which metaphysicians and theologians, both orthodox and heterodox, dogmatize with the utmost confidence.”
“If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.”
“The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to life on Earth.”
“I like poetry, but honestly, I like dramatic literature more. If I had to pick between Rumi and Dostoevsky, I would pick Dostoevsky without even thinking about it. Ninety-nine out of 100 Iranians would probably pick Rumi. Kiarostami, too, would probably pick Rumi first. I try to have the meaning be in the action of the story, not in the symbolism. I want it to be in the action, and it's dramatic action that creates the meaning.”
“Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother's Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents are somehow superior to non-parents.”
“Socrates asks him the crucial question about education, and that is, If you study with this fellow, what will he make of you?”
“You can have faith or you can have control, but you cannot have both.”
“There are so many kinds of time. The time by which we measure our lives. Months and years. Or the big time, the time that raises mountains and makes stars. Or all the things that happen between one heartbeat and the next. Its hard to live in all those kinds of times. Easy to forget that you live in all of them.”
“Human thought can literally transform the physical world .. we are the masters of our own universe”
“I love a star print. I always get a lurch if I see a nice one.”