🍂 Settembre significa un nuovo inizio dopo la pausa estiva e io, come al solito, avevo in programma cento cose. 🥀 😟 E’ finito il mese e ne ho portate a termine forse solo un paio 😪 😉 Vuol dire che mi dedicherò alle altre novantotto a gennaio!!! 😇
“Ci sono soltanto due possibili conclusioni: se il risultato conferma le ipotesi, allora hai appena fatto una misura; se il risultato è contrario alle ipotesi, allora hai fatto una scoperta.” Enrico Fermi (29 settembre 1901-1954) fisico italiano “There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a measurement; if the… Read More “Se il risultato è contrario alle ipotesi…”
Horace Walpole (24 September 1717 –1797) – English man of letters. He was the first to use the word “serendipity” in the English language in 1754 in a letter to a friend where he explained an unexpected discovery he had made about a painting of Bianca Cappello by Giorgio Vasari. He coined it by… Read More Serendipity
Euripides, the famous Greek tragic dramatist, by traditional accounts was born on 23 September 480 BC. Quotes: 🎭 “One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” 🎭 “I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.” 🎭 “A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.” 🎭 “Whoso neglects learning in his… Read More 🎭 Euripides 🎭
“Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand”. William Golding (19 September 1911 –1993) British novelist, playwright, poet and Nobel laureate (Niente è così impenetrabile come una risata in una lingua che non capisci.)
“Hell is paved with good intentions” Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer (18 Sep 1709-1784) “L’inferno è lastricato di buone intenzioni.”
Laurence J. Peter (16 September 1919 –1990) a Canadian educator and “hierarchiologist”, developed the “Peter principle”. a concept in management: “In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence” This leads to the corollary: “In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out… Read More Incompetence
“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” Sydney J. Harris (September 14, 1917 –1986) American journalist. (Lo scopo della scuola è quello di trasformare gli specchi in finestre)
I raggi del sole morente arroventano le acque del lago
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