DICHOS/QUOTES

"You say you are a nameless man. You are not to your wife and to your child. You will not long remain so to your immediate colleagues if you can answer their simple questions when they come into your office. You are not nameless to me. Do not remain nameless to yourself — it is too sad a way to be. Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naïve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher’s ideals are."
Letter from Richard Feynman to Koichi Mano (3 February 1966); published in Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman (2005)
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When atoms are traveling straight down through empty space by their own weight, at quite indeterminate times and places, they swerve every so little from their course, just so much that you would call it a change of direction. It it were not for this swerve, everything would fall downwards through the abyss of space. No collision would take place and no impact of atom on atom would be created. Thus nature would never have created anything.

Cuando los átomos viajan en un curso directo por el espacio por su propio peso, en lugares y tiempos indeterminados, se desvían aunque sea un poco de su curso, apenas para poderle llamar un cambio de rumbo. Si no hubiera este pequeño desvío, todo llevaría un curso paralelo por el espacio. No habría ninguna colisión y el impacto de átomo contra átomo seria inposible, y por lo tanto la naturaleza no se hubiera creado.

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Lucretius 99bc-55bc  (quoted in Manuel de Landa’s 1000 years of non-linear history) Thanks Juan for the translation