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Words to work by: 10 quotes from
across fields
Given the focus of this post, it seems appropriate to begin with
a quote. This one is by New York Times bestselling author John Green: provoking
“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the
stories and people we’re quoting.”
With
that notion in mind, we asked University of Minnesota researchers from a
variety of colleges and campuses to share a favorite quote related to their
discipline. Take a look and click each researcher’s name to learn more about
their work at the U of M…
“We
do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.” ~the Talmud
Lucy Dunne, assistant professor and director, Apparel
Design Program:
“I
defy anyone to design a hat, coat or dress that hasn’t been done before. … The
only new frontier left in fashion is the finding of new materials.” ~Paco
Rabanne, Spanish fashion designer
“Sometimes
the more measurable drives out the most important.” ~René Dubos, French-born
American microbiologist
“The
method of science fiction has its uses in philosophy, but … I wonder whether
the limits of the method are properly heeded. To seek what is ‘logically
required’ for sameness of person under unprecedented circumstances is to
suggest that words have some logical force beyond what our past needs have
invested them with.” ~W.V.O. Quine, American philosopher and logician
“If
there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.” ~Loren Eiseley,
American anthropologist
“Do
not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a
trail.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and poet
“The
most general maxim for those who study functionally organized systems is that
we come to understand how things work by studying how, when and where they
break down. … We learn more when things break down than when they work right.
Cognitively speaking, we metabolize mistakes.” ~William C. Wimsatt,
professor emeritus, philosophy, University of Chicago
“Education
is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” ~Nelson
Mandela, South African political leader
“Well-behaved
women seldom make history.” ~Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, American historian and
Harvard professor
I
had a dream, which was not all a dream.
The bright sun was
extinguish’d, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the
eternal space,
Rayless, and pathless, and the
icy earth
Swung blind and blackening in
the moonless air;
Morn came and went — and
came, and brought no day,
And men forgot their passions
in the dread
Of this their desolation; and
all hearts
Were chill’d into a selfish
prayer for light
~Excerpt
from “Darkness” by Lord Byron, British poet
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