"Cualquier destino, por largo y complicado que sea, consta en realidad de un solo momento: el momento en que el hombre sabe para siempre quién es."

Biografía de Isidoro Tadeo Cruz, Jorge Luis Borges

Interesting Quotes

"Dimidium facti, qui coepit, habet; sapere aude, incipe.” (He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise (know); begin!) Horace, Epistles

"Sapere Aude", Immanuel Kant, What is Enlightment?

Samuelson on mainstream economics (at the time): "More can be less. Much of mathematical economics in the 1950s gained in elegance over old poor Pareto and Edward Chamberlain. But the fine garments sometimes achieved fit only by chopping off some real legs and arms. The theory of cones, polyhedra, and convex sets made possible "elementary" theorems and lemmas. But they seduced economists away from the phenomena of increasing returns to scale and nonconvex technology that lie at the heart of oligopoly problems and many real-world maximizing assignments. Easy victories over a science wrong opponents are hollow victories- at least almost always."

Paul A. Samuelson,

Introduction to the New Enlarged Edition, pp. xix.

Foundations of Economic Analysis, Enlarged Edition,

Harvard University Press, 1983.

Samuelson on specialization in science: "A student who studied only one science would be less likely  to recognize what belonged to logic rather than to the nature of things."

Paul A. Samuelson,

Introduction to the New Enlarged Edition, pp. xix.

Foundations of Economic Analysis, Enlarged Edition,

Harvard University Press, 1983.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph [of evil] is for good men to do nothing."

Edmund Burke,

English philosopher. Irish politician.