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  • The lap of eternity

    ‘I no sooner come into the library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is idleness, the mother of ignorance, and Melancholy herself, and in the very lap of eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I take my seat, with so lofty a spirit and sweet content.‘― Heinsius

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  • The Infinite Pursuit of Knowledge

    ‘We see in all other pleasures, there is satiety, and after they be used, their verdure departeth, which showeth well they be but deceits of pleasure, and not pleasures; and that it was the novelty which pleased, and not the quality. And, therefore, we see that voluptuous men turn friars, and ambitious princes turn melancholy. But of knowledge there is no satiety, but satisfaction and appetite are perpetually interchangeable.‘― Joseph Lykken

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  • The Magic of Old Libraries

    ‘What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers, that have bequeathed their labors to these Bodleians, were reposing here, as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard.‘― Charles Lamb

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  • The marvellous existence of bookstores

    ‘The marvel is, indeed, that the bookseller ever survives at all. It is as if a haberdasher, in addition to meeting all the hazards of the current fashion, had to keep in stock a specimen of every kind of shirt, collar, sock, necktie and undershirt in favour since 1750‘― H. L. Mencken

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  • Enormous

    ‘Let Your enormous Library be justified.‘― Jorge Luis Borges

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  • A universe filled with extra dimensions

    ‘The physics of extra dimensions is a revolution in the making. If the extra dimensions exist, the visible universe is just a slice. The rest is terra incognita.‘― Joseph Lykken

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  • GUT gut gut

    ‘One theory to rule them all, One theory to find them, One theory to quantize them all, And in the darkness bind them, In the land of Brane where the shadows lie.‘― Paul Halpern

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  • Not Polite

    ‘Unfortunately I don’t issue visas from Switzerland, so I cannot stop you coming.‘― Wolfgang Pauli answering Stanley Deser who wanted to come and visit him

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  • Long Live the New Theory of Einstein!

    ‘The old theory of Einstein is dead. Long live the new theory of Einstein.‘― Wolfgang Pauli

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  • Discover the Unique Pont de Claies in Vresse-sur-Semois

    We went for a weekend to Vresse-sur-Semois. We rented a house with a group of friends and spent time catching up and going for a day hike. The village is close to the French border and nearby Rochehaut is probably better known. As the name suggests the village lies next to the river Semois. So one of the popular things to do is to rent a kayak and paddle downstream for some kilometers. There are many places along the river where you can get a kayak and typically you then can take a ride back to the starting point in…

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