Monday April 09, 2007
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Monday April 09, 2007
The Earth
When people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.
Posted at 12:25AM Apr 09, 2007 by Ala Moradian in Research |
Sunday April 08, 2007
Saturday April 07, 2007
Tuesday February 20, 2007
E-Go
People say "I want peace." If you remove I (ego), and your
want (desire), you are left with peace.
Posted at 10:47PM Feb 20, 2007 by Ala Moradian in Research |
Friday February 16, 2007
Life is like a ...
The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds
and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy. -- Florence Shinn
Life is just like a box of Chocolate, you'll never know what you're gonna get"-- Forrest Gump
Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it.
Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still. -- Lou Erickso
Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us. -- Thomas L. Holdcroft
Posted at 10:00PM Feb 16, 2007 by Ala Moradian in Research |
Wednesday February 14, 2007
Saturday February 10, 2007
Wonders?!
Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.
Posted at 01:42AM Feb 10, 2007 by Ala Moradian in Research |
Friday February 09, 2007
Disapprove
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Source: Attributed in SG Tallentyre, The friends of Voltaire, 1907
Posted at 12:01AM Feb 09, 2007 by Ala Moradian in Research | Comments[1]
Wednesday February 07, 2007
What we want
| "Sometimes the Universe doesn't give us exactly what we want when we want it, because there's actually something better down the road." | |
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Sandra Anne Taylor Author of Quantum Success |
Posted at 09:14PM Feb 07, 2007 by Ala Moradian in Research |
Monday January 29, 2007
A wish
I wish, I could forget that people cannot rememebr...
Posted at 12:40AM Jan 29, 2007 by Ala Moradian in Research |
Sunday January 28, 2007
Any Idea?
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
Posted at 01:59AM Jan 28, 2007 by Ala Moradian in Research | Comments[1]
Saturday January 27, 2007
The Character of Physical Law
Feynman's quote from "The Character of Physical Law"
"...one does not, by knowing all the fundamental laws as we know
them today, immediately obtain an understanding of anything much. It
takes a while , and even then it is only partial. Nature, as a matter
of fact, seems to be so designed that the most important things in the
real world appear to be kind of complicated accidental result of a lot
of laws.....
We have a way of discussing the word, when we talk of it at various hierarchies, or levels. Now I do not mean to be very precise, dividing the world into definite levels, but I will indicate, by describing a set of ideas, what I men by hierarchies.
For example , at one end we have the fundamental laws of physics. Then we invent other terms for concepts which are approximate, which have, we believe, their ultimate explanation in terms of the fundamental laws. For instance, 'heat'. Heat is supposed to be jiggling, and the word for a hot thing is just the word for a mass of atoms which are jiggling. But for a while , if we are talking about heat, we sometimes forget about atoms jiggling-just as when we talk about the glacier we do not always think of the hexagonal ice and the snowflakes which originally fell. Another example of the same thing is a salt crystal. Looked at fundamentally it is lot of protons, neutrons, and electrons; but we have this concept 'salt crystal', which carries a whole pattern of fundamental interactions. An idea like pressure is the same.
Now if we go higher up from this, in another level we have properties of substances - like 'refractive index', how light is bent when it goes through something; or 'surface tension', the fact that water tends to pull itself together, both of which are described by numbers. I remind you that we have to go through several laws down to find out that it is the pull of atoms, and so on. But we still say 'surface tension', and do not always worry, when discussing surface tension, about the inner workings.
On, up in the hierarchy. With the water we have waves, and we have things like a storm, the word 'storm' which represents an enormous mass of phenomenon, or a 'sun spot', or 'star', which is an accumulation of things. And it is not worth while always to think of it way back. In fact we cannot, because the higher up we go the more steps we have in between, each one of which is a little weak. We have not thought them all through yet.
As we go up in this hierarchy of complexity, we get to things like muscle twitch, or nerve impulse, which is an enormous complicated thing in the physical world, involving an organization of matter in a very elaborate complexity. Then come things like 'frog'.
And then we go on, and we come to words and concepts like 'man', and 'history', or 'political expediency', and so forth, a series of concepts which we use to understand things at an even higher level.
And going on, we come to things like evil, and beauty, and hope...
Which end is nearer to God; if I may use a religious metaphor. Beauty and hope, or the fundamental laws ? ......."
Posted at 09:11AM Jan 27, 2007 by Ala Moradian in Research |
Friday January 26, 2007
Social Research
One idea:
If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and
every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is
that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given
the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is
unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the
study.
Another idea:
No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
Posted at 08:20PM Jan 26, 2007 by Ala Moradian in Research |
Saturday January 13, 2007
To forget or not to forget
You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.
Posted at 12:30PM Jan 13, 2007 by Ala Moradian in Research |
Friday January 05, 2007
A fine hypothesis ?
Sunset at the North Pole
Napoleon: You have written this huge book [celestial mechanics] on the system of the world without once mentioning the author of the universe. Laplace: Sire, I had no need of that hypothesis. Later when told by Napoleon about the incident, Lagrange commented: Ah, but that is a fine hypothesis. It explains so many things.
Source: DeMorgan's Budget of Paradoxes.
Posted at 11:11PM Jan 05, 2007 by Ala Moradian in Research |
Thursday December 28, 2006
The Relativity of Life
Relativity is a famous lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher which was first printed in December, 1953. It depicts a paradoxical world in which the normal laws of gravity do not apply...
Albert Einstein: Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.
Martin Luther King Jr : Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to
have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and
verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle .
. . (or) Einstein's Theory of Relativity. . . (or) the Second Theory of
Thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of
grace. A soul generated by love.
Posted at 06:58PM Dec 28, 2006 by Ala Moradian in Research |
Wednesday December 27, 2006
Christmas
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
Posted at 09:27PM Dec 27, 2006 by Ala Moradian in Research |
Sunday December 24, 2006
Science vs. Humanity
The 7 Deadly Sins are: Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience
Knowledge without character Business without morality Science without
humanity Worship without sacrifice Politics without principle.
Posted at 12:06AM Dec 24, 2006 by Ala Moradian in Research |
Thursday December 21, 2006
Confusion
Four things a man must learn to do If he
would make his record true; To think without confusion clearly; To love
his fellowmen sincerely; To act from honest motives purely; To trust in
God and Heav'n securely. 
Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.
Ref.: http://quotes.zaadz.com/topics/confusion?page=4
Posted at 01:27AM Dec 21, 2006 by Ala Moradian in Research |
Wednesday November 29, 2006
Illusion
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)
Posted at 10:27PM Nov 29, 2006 by Ala Moradian in Research | Comments[1]
Wednesday November 22, 2006
Persistence
"Consider the postage stamp; its usefullness consists in the ability to stick to one thing
till it gets there."
~ Josh Billings ~
Posted at 11:50PM Nov 22, 2006 by Ala Moradian in Research |
Tuesday November 21, 2006
Courage
"Have courage for the greatest sorrows of life and patience for the small ones, and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."
~ Victor Hugo ~
Posted at 11:16PM Nov 21, 2006 by Ala Moradian in Research | Comments[1]
Wednesday November 15, 2006
Common mistakes
Cicero’s Six Mistakes of Man (according to Arthur F. Lenehan):
- The delusion that individual advancement is made by crushing others
- The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected
- Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it
- Refusing to set aside trivial preferences
- Neglecting development and refinement of the mind and not acquiring the habit of reading and studying
- Attempting to compel other persons to believe and live as we do.
Posted at 12:00AM Nov 15, 2006 by Ala Moradian in Research |
Wednesday October 18, 2006
again..human
"In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a
lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a
lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar."
— Anton Chekhov, Russian dramatist and short story writer (1860-1904)
Posted at 12:00AM Oct 18, 2006 by Ala Moradian in Research |
Monday August 21, 2006
... as though ....
Dance, as though no one is watching,
Love, as though you've never been hurt before,
Sing, as though no one can hear you,
Work, as though you don't need the money,
Live, as though heaven is on earth.
~Rumi~
Posted at 12:00AM Aug 21, 2006 by Ala Moradian in Research | Comments[1]
Wednesday August 16, 2006
Knowledge vs. Ability
| "The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts." | |
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Booker T. Washington 1856-1915, Educator and Reformer |
Posted at 08:30PM Aug 16, 2006 by Ala Moradian in Research |
Monday August 14, 2006
Wednesday July 12, 2006
Powers
February 2, 2006
Rainbow at Elam Bend (McFall, Missouri)
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.
Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every
ill-judged outlay.
Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every
ill-judged outlay.
Posted at 09:46PM Jul 12, 2006 by Ala Moradian in Research |
Wednesday June 28, 2006
Friends
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Eudemian Ethics
Posted at 12:00AM Jun 28, 2006 by Ala Moradian in Research |
Saturday June 17, 2006
Assumptions
Niagara Falls
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they
really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and
behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Posted at 10:07PM Jun 17, 2006 by Ala Moradian in Research |
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