Words of wisdom

今年のLab Lunchでの言葉。誕生日の人はフリーランチゲットの引き換えに、Words of Wisdomを提供することになっています。
今年は「学ぶ、発見」と、「人生、生きる」ことに関しての言葉を集めて見ました。好きな言葉ありますか？

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「学問のススメ」福沢諭吉より　（Encouragement of Learning）
人間みな平等、幸せの差は学んでいるか 学んでいないかだけである。
Everybody is equal. The difference of happiness that they have is either they learn or not.

見込みあればこれを試みざるべからず。未だ試みずして先ずその成否を疑う者は、これを勇者というべからず。
If there are some possibilities, try it. The one who wonder the success without trying will be failure.

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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. (by Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Physiologist Nobel Prize)

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. (by Marcel Proust, French Novelist)

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way. (by Doris Lessing, British Writer Nobel Prize)

Sometimes things don’t work out. It’s just life’s way of showing you new possibilities.

In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity. (by Albert Einstein)

It is as important to decide what you should stop as it is to decide what you should start.

Scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium, a benefit. (by Marie Curie)

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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. (By Albert Einstein)

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. (by Winston Churchill)

Live your life and forget your age. (by Norman Vincent Peale)

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. (By Angela Monet)

If you consider this road risky, often it is the road that you really want to go. (by Taro Okamoto)

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• Cherry blossom story-

There is traditional craft to dye fabric with Cherry blossom. To extract pink color dye from cherry blossom, they use tree branches instead of neither cherry blossom flower nor leaves.
They especially need to use tree branches just before flower-blooming otherwise pink color would not be beautiful.
Cherry blossom prepare well before blooming even though we cannot see how well they prepare inside of the tree.