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Page I am currently/soon going to Wikify is: Abeles matrix formalism (After looking at more Physics/Optics pages) (Sure I was an Optician for some time in space, but I have never been until recently, a Wikipedian. Thus, I must formalize myself with some 'stuff'...)
From User:Sfacets:
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It is said that if you place a million monkeys in front of a million keyboards, they will eventually produce the works of Shakespeare. This is simply not true. They cannot even produce an encyclopedia. |
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Thisis why we shouldn't use Wikipedia as a primary source.
- So there you have it, Johnny, read books.
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Begin it now.
- –Goethe
Who wants to understand the poem
Must go to the land of poetry;
Who wishes to understand the poet
Must go to the poet's land.
- -Goethe, West-östlicher Diwan, motto (1819)
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
- -Goethe, Elective Affinities (1808) Bk. II, Ch. 7
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
- -Goethe, Sprüche in Prosa (Proverbs in Prose)
Music washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday life.
- -Berthold Auerbach
"With myself, always myself, never forgetting"
- -Tracey Emin written on the floor of 'her tent,' her Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995
"Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more."
- -Ulrike Meinhof
"Quasi-lingual aspirations and motives ulterior
Blind me with unforseen hindsight;
Asinine and a might bit dominative,
Intellects abound."
- -SteinAlive, 'Paraliphic prhases'
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