The Originals

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    * Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.    
   
    * A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word just as good.

    * Genius borrows nobly. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: “Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life.”
   
— Ralph W. Emerson

2012.02.14 Tuesday ACHK

種子意念 2.1.2

網誌時代 14

這段改編自 2010 年 3 月 20 日的對話。

Every lecture should make only one main point.

The German philosopher G. W. F. Hegel wrote that any philosopher who uses the word “and” too often cannot be a good philosopher. I think he was right, at least insofar as lecturing goes. Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations.

— Advice for the Young Scientist

— John Baez

與志同道合的人傾談時,我會在電光火石之間,同時爆發很多條思考線出來,令我「驚惶失措」,不知先講哪一樣比較好。

寫作時會有類似的問題。所以,我迫自己每日最多只寫一篇文章,而文章每篇最多只可以有一個(主要)新點子。那對我來說,有穩定思想、克制情緒的作用。

另外,寫作太多,其實沒有什麼大意思。一來,自己不會有那麼多的時間。二來,讀者亦不會全部閱讀。即使全部閱讀,他們也不會有足夠時間,去把學到的道理付諸實行。「道理」即是「方法」。方法,是用來解決問題的。不能實行,或者不實行的道理,是廢話廢字,不寫也罷。

寫一句讀者會確切執行的東西,勝過寫十篇看過就算的文章。真正重要的,不是我寫了什麼,而是讀者看到什麼、想到什麼 和 做到什麼。

— Me@2012.02.14

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Double slit experiment

Feynman has said that all the surprising wisdom of quantum mechanics is hiding in the double slit experiment. If you think about it carefully enough, you will ultimately figure out all the important and amazing new features of the world that quantum mechanics uncovers.

— Lubos Motl

2012.02.14 Tuesday ACHK