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The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.
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When a man is forced into early retirement, he is often being ‘given up for a younger man.’ Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being ‘given up for a younger woman’ is for a woman… Why do many men get more upset by retirement than women do from the empty nest when their children leave home? When females retire from children, they can try a career; when a man retires from a career, his children are gone.
warren farrell— p. 174. (Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex)
The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game.
karl popper— Ch. 2 "On the Problem of a Theory of Scientific Method", Section XI: Methodological Rules as Conventions
Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again. “The thoughtful soul to solitude retires,” said the poet of other and quieter times; but where is the solitude to which we can retire today? Science, which has provided men with certain material comforts, has robbed them of their souls by surrounding them with a world hostile to their existence.
aiden wilson tozer— Of God and Men, p. 125
Now the New Year reviving old Desires, The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires.
omar khayyám— Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat, FitzGerald's translation, Stanza 4.
The supreme need of the world today is for a true conception and a deeper knowledge of God. The Hindu mother tosses her baby to the crocodiles, the devout pilgrim mutilates his body, the pious monk retires to the wilderness, the martial Moslem massacres the unbelieving, the consecrated missionary lays down his life for his enemy all of these deeds are founded on varying conceptions of God.
— p.15 (Something More, A Consideration of the Vast, Undeveloped Resources of Life (1920))
The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.
Núria Añó— In the short story 2066. Beginning the age of correction
The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game.
— Karl Popper (1934) The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Chapter II "On the Problem of a Theory of Scientific Method", Section XI: Methodological Rules as Conventions
The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.
— Núria Añó, 2066. Beginning the age of correction
The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.
— Núria Añó, 2066. Beginning the age of correction
