12 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
The Serendipity of Drug Manufacturing
Remember the Three Princes of Serendip who went out looking for treasure? They didn't find what they were looking for, but they kept finding things just as valuable. That's serendipity, and our business [drugs] is full of it.Folksonomies: synchronicity
Folksonomies: synchronicity
They don't find what they are looking for, but the find things that are just as valuable.
11 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
Honey Gatherers of the Mind
Our treasure lies in the beehives of our knowledge. We are perpetually on our way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. The only thing that lies close to our heart is the desire to bring something home to the hive.Folksonomies: collectivism
Folksonomies: collectivism
We are like bees, gathering knowledge for the hive.
13 DEC 2011 by ideonexus
The Search Brings It's Own Treasure
And yet surely to alchemy this right is due, that it may be compared to the husbandman whereof Ęsop makes the fable, that when he died he told his sons that he had left unto them gold buried under the ground in his vineyard: and they digged over the ground, gold they found none, but by reason of their stirring and digging the mould about the roots of their vines, they had a great vintage the year following: so assuredly the search and stir to make gold hath brought to light a great number of ...Using an Aesop's fable, Bacon illustrates how alchemy is a productive venture even if it produces no gold.
08 JAN 2011 by ideonexus
We Cannot Trend How Our Reasoning May Go
There is no abiding thing in what we know. We change from weaker to stronger lights, and each more powerful light pierces our hitherto opaque foundations and reveals fresh and different opacities below. We can never foretell which of our seemingly assured fundamentals the next change will not affect. What folly, then, to dream of mapping out our minds in however general terms, of providing for the endless mysteries of the future a terminology and an idiom! We follow the vein, we mine and accu...As we follow lines of thought, "mining" them, we do not know where they will take us, and as we metabolize our thoughts, they pass away from us.