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Some sentences I've highlighted: "I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labor, for I have devot
by cbracketdash 3y ago
Some sentences I've highlighted:
"I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labor, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours."
"Our first endeavors are purely instinctive, promptings of an imagination vivid and undisciplined...but those early impulses, tho not immediately productive, are of the greatest moment and may shape our very destinies."
"When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination".
"But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile."
- themodelplumber 3y ago> "But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile." Similar to remarks on human intuition. And that's how Intuition Peak in Antarctica came to be named, by a scientist (I asked him about it).
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 3y agoAsked who? I can't find a specific scientist credited for naming it.
- quakeguy 3y agoSeems like a bulgarian institution named it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Place-names_Commission https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Place-names_Commissi... The Commission approves Bulgarian place names in Antarctica, which are formally given by the President of the Republic according to the Bulgarian Constitution
- themodelplumber 3y agoDr. Lyubomir Ivanov proposed the name, it was approved by committee in 4/2005, and then promulgated by the president. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyubomir_Ivanov_(explorer) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyubomir_Ivanov_(explorer)