QUOTATIONS
"A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs." (James Joyce, "Finnegans Wake").In memory of Charles R. O'Melia (1934-2010)
[1-31 January 2011]
"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." (George Orwell, "In Front of Your Nose", Tribune, London, 1946).[1-27 February 2011]
"Science in founded on the conviction that experience, effort, and reason are valid; magic on the belief that hope cannot fail nor desire deceive."
(Bronislaw Malinowski, "Magic, Science, and Religion", 1948).[28 February - 31 March 2011]
"The nature of water, as the Presocratics might have said, is to flow. For water to be puzzled, to hesitate even for an instant, would be against its nature."
(J.M. Coetzee, "Diary of a Bad Year", Vintage, 2008, p. 215).[1-23 April 2011]
"Now and again Geiser finds himself wondering what he really wants to know, what he hopes to gain from all this knowledge." (Max Frisch, "Man in the Holocene", Dalkey Archive Press, 2007, p. 90).[24 April - 11 July 2011]
"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." (George Orwell).[12 July - 24 September 2011]
"Dans la vie, rien n'est ŕ craindre, tout est ŕ comprendre." (Marie Curie).[25 September - 14 October 2011]
*"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."
"Le temps du monde fini commence." (Paul Valéry).[15 October - 15 November 2011]
*"The time of the finite world is beginning."
"We shall have to learn to refrain from doing things merely because we know how to do them." (Theodore Fox, The Lancet, 2, 801 (1965).[15 November - 31 December 2011]