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1 " The only thing that interests the physicist is finding out on what assumptions a framework of things can be constructed which will enable us to know how to use them mechanically. Physics, as I have said on another occasion, is the technique of techniques and the ars combinatoria for fabricating machines. It is a knowledge which has scarcely anything to do with comprehension. "
― José Ortega y Gasset
2 " Ars moriendi ars vivendi est: the art of dying is the art of living. "
― Robert Charles Wilson , Spin (Spin, #1)
3 " Conversation is the vehicle for change. We test our ideas. We hear our own voice in a concert with another. And inside those pauses of listening, we approach new territories of thought. A good argument, call it a discussion, frees us. Words fly out of our mouths like threatened birds. Once released, they may never return. If they do, they have chosen home and the bird-worms are calmed into an ars poetica. "
― Terry Tempest Williams , When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
