What are we doing down here? We prepare the blossoms of tomorrow. We all manure future humanity.
Leo Errera"Le gรฉnie n'est qu'une longue patience", a dit Buffon. Cela est bien incomplet. Le gรฉnie, c'est l'impatience dans les idรฉes et la patience dans les faits : une imagination vive et un jugement calme; quelque chose comme un liquide en รฉbullition dans un vase qui reste toujours froid. "Genius is just enduring patience," said Buffon. This is far from complete. Genius is impatience in ideas and patience with the facts: a lively imagination and a calm judgment, rather like a liquid boiling in a cup that remains cold.
Leo ErreraThe altruism of foresters can serve as a motto for humanity in general: "We reap what we have not sown. We sow what we do not reap."
Leo ErreraTruth is different from error in two respects: it is a little harder to prove and more difficult to admit.
Leo Errera