Irene

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“What, then, is the hallmark of science? Do we have to capitulate and agree that a scientific revolution is just an irrational change in commit­ment, that it is a religious conversion? Tom Kuhn, a distinguished Amer­ican philosopher of science, arrived at this conclusion after discovering the naivety of Popper’s falsificationism. But if Kuhn is right, then there is no explicit demarcation between science and pseudoscience, no distinc­tion between scientific progress and intellectual decay, there is no objec­tive standard of honesty. But what criteria can he then offer to demarcate scientific progress from intellectual degeneration?”
― Imre Lakatos, Philosophical Papers, Volume 1: The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes

“My little old dog
a heart-beat
at my feet”
― Edith Wharton

“Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
― Carl Sandburg