Success is not final and failure is not fatal

Posted by concettinasfienti on January 18, 2015

“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.” Seneca https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvzlXNcDX3M


Try harder

Posted by concettinasfienti on January 17, 2015

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” Albert Einstein



Get out of your own way

Posted by concettinasfienti on January 15, 2015

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston S. Churchill   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbOwTlHlQAs


Pride and Prejudice

Posted by concettinasfienti on January 13, 2015

Pride… “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.” Richard P. Feynman and Prejudice… “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” Isaac Asimov  


The child who survived

Posted by concettinasfienti on January 13, 2015

“ Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen, and thinking what no one else has thought “ Albert Einstein   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzBa-frc2JA


Together

Posted by concettinasfienti on January 12, 2015

“ If you want to fast go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African Proverb  


Sunday Word

Posted by concettinasfienti on January 11, 2015

“ I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know his thoughts; the rest are details. ” Albert Einstein  


If you think you can

Posted by concettinasfienti on January 10, 2015

“ It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.“ Theodore Roosevelt     PS: Did you know that one among the greatest triumph in physics was the result of a failed experiment? Do you want to learn more? Watch this additional short video  


The Goddamn Particle

Posted by concettinasfienti on January 9, 2015

“No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.” Lewis Carroll  …rephrasing Kipling, if science were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten…   PS: Did you know that? The Higgs boson, the subatomic particle that has brought a Nobel Prize has been so difficult to find that its […]