Fortune Favours the Brave by Michelle Marcella Clarke https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07LCMPBNH/

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Age 12 my mother Eleanor Rose gave me the family signet ring in gold which can be used as a stamp (again of another era in time).  The title of this book is the motto

Fortuna Audaces Juvat

Fortune Favours the Brave

But therein what is essential is Courage

Appendix

Quotations:

Without fail every day, I engage with my Google friend and search for quotations. Some days Twitter will give me a theme; another day I may look at exceptional people whose quotations are noted. Four themes which are particularly special to me are Curiosity; Hope; Neuroscience; Medicine.

Curiosity:

“Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of vigorous intellect”. Samuel Johnson

“Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.” William Arthur Ward

“Be curious, not judgemental.” Walt Whitman

“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.” Marie Curie

“Curiosity is the lust of the mind.” Thomas Hobbes

“Curiosity is the engine of achievement.” Ken Robinson

“One can remain alive … if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity in big things and happy in small ways.” Emily Wharton

“Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.” Ralph Waldo emerson

“Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world’s most important discoveries.” Gordon Gee

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease at death”. Albert Einstein

“It is a miracle that curiosity survives a formal education.” Albert Einstein

Hope:

“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believe the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything else seems hopeless.” Gilbert K. Chesterton

“If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.” Nhat Hanh

“The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune’s spite; revive from the ashes and rise.” Miquel de Cervantes

“Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.” Robert Kennedy.

“Learn from yesterday, live for today”. Albert Einstein

Neuroscience:

“More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990’s – the so-called decade of the brain – than during the entire previous history of psychology and neuroscience.” Antonio Damasio

“The brain is the organ or destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.” Wilder Penfield.

“There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.” Francis Crick

“The Holy Grail of neuroscience has been to understand how and where information is encoded in the brain.” Thomas R. Insel

Daniel Dennett is our best current philosopher. He is the next Bertrand Russell. Unlike traditional philosophers, Dan is a student of neuroscience, linguistics, artificial intelligence and reforming the role of the philosopher.” Marvin Minsky

Medicine / Artificial Intelligence:

“It’s supposed to be a secret, but I’ll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help. And encourage the doctor within.” Albert Schweitzer

“Thanks to modern medicine we are no longer forced to endure prolonged pain, disease, discomfort and wealth.” Robert Orben (Magician)

By 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshiped and feared. But our tools will not be magic wands and potions but the science of computers, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and most of all, the quantum theory.” Micheio Kaku (Theoretical Physicist)

“In this century, not only has science changed the world faster than ever, but in new and different ways. Targeted drugs, genetic modification, artificial intelligence, perhaps even implants into our brains – many change human beings themselves.” Martin Rees

“Where today people surf the web and check their email on their cell phones, tomorrow they will be checking their vital signs.” Eric Topol

“Chemotherapy is just medieval. It’s a blunt instrument. We’re going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.” Eric Topol

Happy New Year 2019

Michelle Marcella Clarke

Book published:  https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1912639610/