Judgement is not difficult for many. They judge others without knowledge and it doesn’t bother them in the least. But maybe Hippocrates didn’t know about Hypocrisy
if he was contemplating the LHC than surely that was Nostradamus, not Hippocrates
Philoponus
I hope ARJ’s thread is not at all prophetic. The Greek for the third line speaks of PEIRA SPHALERE, which is more literally “attempts are likely to fail”.
http://henwen.net/Default.aspx Eilonvi
what a great quote! isn’t it amazing how few words capture profound essence?
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About Sean Carroll
Sean Carroll is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. His research interests include theoretical aspects of cosmology, field theory, and gravitation. His most recent book is The Particle at the End of the Universe, about the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the Higgs boson.
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