Cogitation: June 2007

No loss, All gain

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

- Madeleine L'Engle, writer (1918 - )

बाक़ी जिन्दगी

जिन्दगी कि असली उड़ान अभी बाक़ी हैं
जिन्दगी के कई इम्तेहान अभी बाक़ी हैं
फिलहाल तो नापी है मुट्ठी भर ज़मीन
सारा आस्मां तो अभी बाक़ी है

- स्टेटस ऑफ़ सौरभ, सीडैक

Histories need a swap, perspectives need a change

It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.

- Bill Vaughan, journalist (1915-1977)

Laughs and Cries

I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but i
never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry...
- gmail status of kanika, my schoolmate

"The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy (science); for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history and mechanical experiments and lay up in the memory whole, as it finds it, but lays it up in the understanding altered and digested. Therefore, from a closer and purer league between these two faculties, the experimental and the rational (such as has never been made), much may be hoped."
- Francis Bacon as quoted here

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