"A wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard: Why can't we all be like that bird?"

A drunk man will eventually wander home, while a drunk bird may be lost forever

"The longer a person has lived the less he gains by reading, and the more likely he is to forget what he has read and learnt of old; and the only remedy that I know of is to write upon every subject that he wishes to understand..." - Thomas Young

"Big whorls have little whorls, Which feed on their velocity; And little whorls have lesser whorls, And so on to viscosity..." ~ Lewis Richardson

Probability is prospective, statistics is retrospective, and inference is the intersection.

"A stream cannot rise higher than its source; pure mathematics and immaculate judgment combined cannot cure the inaccuracy of erroneous original data." - Jacob Dodge (1892)

Less information may lead to improved decision making. It's not about quantity, it's about quality.

"Mathematicians estimate money in proportion to its quantity, and men of good sense in proportion to the usage that they may make of it." -Gabriel Cramer May 21st, 1728

"To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, subtract things every day." - Lao-Tzu

Our opportunities are the result of intentional actions by our predecessors. We honor them by carrying the intention forward, creating new opportunities for our successors.

"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing."

"Know then, proud man, what a paradox you are to yourself. Be humble, impotent reason! Be silent, feeble nature! Learn that man infinitely transcends man, hear from your master your true condition, which is unknown to you." - Blaise Pascal

"However you frame yourself as an artist, the frame is too small."

#medphys #asmr -- maybe the oldest functional linac in the US, excellent condition clinac-4 (factory refurbished in 1984)

Ian Hacking and the looping effect: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v28/n16/…

Every word is an arrow, every expression a force of limitless potential.

"The irreducible plurality of perspectives on the same reality expresses the impossibility of a divine point of view from which the whole of reality is visible." - Order Out of Chaos, Ilya Prigogine