#sting

Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and re-experience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart. ↗

— Buckminster Fuller

#discerning #discovery #empiricism #experience #experiment

Buffett's methodology was straightforward, and in that sense 'simple.' It was not simple in the sense of being easy to execute. Valuing companies such as Coca-Cola took a wisdom forged by years of experience; even then, there was a highly subjective element. A Berkshire stockholder once complained that there were no more franchises like Coca-Cola left. Munger tartly rebuked him. 'Why should it be easy to do something that, if done well two or three times, will make your family rich for life? ↗

— Roger Lowenstein

#investing #warren-buffett #experience

However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#assembly #before #distinguished #especially #followed

The challenge is to keep it fresh. If you're talking about Britney Spears over and over, it's very hard to keep that interesting. ↗

— Chelsea Handler

#britney #britney spears #challenge #fresh #hard

We thought it would be nice to have atoms interact in such a gentle way with the photons that they would just take an imprint of the photons, so that many atoms could 'see' the same photon and it would give rise to a lot of interesting effects. Myself and my colleagues had this project for a very long time and we were finally able to observe it. ↗

— Serge Haroche

#atoms #be nice #colleagues #could #effects

Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do, and renders us amiable in every Station, and thro' every Stage of Life. ↗

— Eliza Haywood

#amiable #attracts #beauties #charm #every

The fact that I made a special movie with an old-fashioned style - even if it's a mix between with modern and old-fashioned things - must mean I feel both ways about change. In a way I'm resisting, but in a way adapting myself to the times. ↗

— Michel Hazanavicius

#adapting #between #both #change #even

The real problem is arranging that experience in a way that tells a story, which is just incredible enough to be interesting, but credible enough to be believed. ↗

— Richard Helms

#believed #credible #enough #experience #incredible

Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry. ↗

— Jack Herer

#dry #ever #fiber #full #hemp

Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#approach #been #challenge #classic #concentrated