Good Morning Ladies & Gentlemen! Happy Wednesday Digital Neighbors & Friends! A few quotes from Madam Curie. A bit about her before pondering the quotes.
Marie Salomea Skłodowska Curie; born Maria Salomea Skłodowska, Polish: 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and the only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two scientific fields. Her husband, Pierre Curie, was a co-winner on her first Nobel Prize, making them the first ever married couple to win the Nobel Prize and launching the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes.
5 Noble prizes in one family???? Some people have all the talent! Off to the quotes from this great scientists and woman.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Can anything define our age as different from preceding ages, we are more obsessed about people, the gossipy part of humanity, the superficial parts of personality, the Fascistbook parade of a life filled mainly thinking about one's self and hoping others might notice? I know, too Curmudgeony. There was a lot of good on FB on the early days, seeing family photos was a real joy and keeping up with family & friends is a good. The politicization of life, the religion of many, corrupts everything it touches when your politics have become toxic and divisive. The bigger the government the smaller the citizen.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Attributed to many people, often Eleanor Roosevelt these days. According to Quote Investigator: In conclusion, Henry Thomas Buckle was the originator of the three-part maxim published in 1901. He was building on earlier guidelines about desirable forms of conversation. After 1901 the statement evolved, and the category “things” was changed to “events” in the most common modern version. James H. Halsey and Hyman G. Rickover employed instances of the adage but did not craft it. The connection to Eleanor Roosevelt was spurious.
Back to Madam Curie😁
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.
Before there was Peterson and making your bed, there was Marie Curie and her wise and common sense approach to life. In an age of profound selfishness, being a selfless person is not easy. Users rarely set limits, givers need to set limits. Some of my closest friends are a bit misanthropic and don't have much to say about the current chapter of humanity. I tend to be the opposite without being too Polly Annie-ish. I am hopeful in every person I meet, I am careful when & where I meet them. The setting of the encounters often determines quality of the encounter. Random encounters with humanity varies, check your charts and make your rolls.
Scientists believe in things, not in persons.
Fauci. Or perhaps your patron saint of science is part of a pantheon like the CDC or WHO. Either way, the cult of personality and the cult of science are like any cult - DANGEROUS. Characteristic of cults are many. Here are a few shifted from some Duck Duck a going!
The group displays an excessively zealous and unquestioning commitment to its leader, and (whether he is alive or dead) regards his belief system, ideology, and practices as the Truth, as law.
Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.
More found here
http://cultresearch.org/help/characteristics-associated-with-cults/
As we have often talked about in Coffee Talk and at Padre's, science vs "The Science" are two different things. Too many have abandoned science and its relentless questioning, doubts and pursuit of understanding the whatness of their endeavor. THES SCIENCE - as we have all heard is settled. Questioning THE SCIENCE makes you a proponent of misinformation, the latest sin in the ever growing lexicon of public offenses as determined by the CABAL. Love science, detest The Science. As the great Madam says - science believes in things, not in persons. Have a great Wednesday my friends!
Somewhere in Norway was this beautiful sunrise.
