January 4

January 4 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2005
 * I know this in no way alleviates the enormous amounts of pain and loss experienced by those who have suffered from the tsunami, but I hope it can make a difference. ~ Sandra Bullock on her large donation to tsunami relief efforts of the American Red Cross
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. ~ Isaac Newton (born 4 January 1643)
 * proposed by UDScott


 * 2007
 * Men learn little from others' experience. But in the life of one man, never the same time returns. ~ T. S. Eliot, in Murder in the Cathedral (died 4 January 1965)
 * proposed by UDScott


 * 2008
 * The main Business of natural Philosophy is to argue from Phenomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects, till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical. ~ Isaac Newton (born 4 January 1643)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine). ~ R.E.M. ~ (birthday of Michael Stipe, lead singer and major song writer in the band — which divides the credit on all its songs equally)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * That's me in the corner That's me in the spotlight Losing my religion Trying to keep up with you And I don't know if I can do it Oh no I've said too much I haven't said enough. ~ R.E.M. ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * The folly of Interpreters has been, to foretell times and things by this Prophecy, as if God designed to make them Prophets. By this rashness they have not only exposed themselves, but brought the Prophecy also into contempt. The design of God was much otherwise. He gave this and the Prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify mens curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and his own Providence, not the Interpreters, be then manifested thereby to the world. For the event of things predicted many ages before will then be a convincing argument that the world is governed by Providence. ~ Isaac Newton
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012
 * When your day is long and the night, the night is yours alone, when you're sure you've had enough of this life, well hang on. Don't let yourself go, 'cause everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes. ~ R.E.M. ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


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 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:


 * To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty, and leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things. ~ Isaac Newton
 * used 6 February 2004, selected by Kalki


 * If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. ~ Isaac Newton
 * used 25 January 2005, selected by Kalki

Suggestions
DOB : Bob Black · Isaac Newton · Michael Stipe -

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. ~ Isaac Newton (born January 4, 1643)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:38, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 16:16, 3 January 2008 (UTC) A variant of this has already been used. ~ Kalki 16:16, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Zarbon 17:53, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Pithy Francoln (talk) 21:51, 9 October 2016 (UTC) My impression is that many scientists who make world-altering discoveries find it very important to acknowledge those natural philosophers and scientists who came before them and whose insights they built upon when formulating their own new theories. I'm not a scientist, but I get the impression that many scientists are familiar with this thought from Isaac Newton, and many find it necessary to repeat a similar declaration of humility and gratitude right before publishing something they *know* is important. I propose running this quote in its form as shown here, and then just saying that this specific version of the quote has never before been run as a quote of the day.

It is all very well to be cautious, but if we are too cautious we will miss our opportunity. ~ Yoshijirō Umezu
 * 3 Zarbon 06:04, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:47, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:04, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything. ~ Isaac Newton
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 08:21, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

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Religion is partly fundamental & immutable partly circumstantial & mutable. ~ Isaac Newton
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 08:21, 23 December 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

The changing of bodies into light, and light into bodies, is very conformable to the course of Nature, which seems delighted with transmutations. ~ Isaac Newton
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 08:21, 23 December 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Sure, on a larger scale, it was healthy to have people out there you cared about more than yourself. She knew that. But then there was the abject fear you would lose it. They say possessions own you. Not so. Loved ones own you. You are forever held hostage once you care so much. ~ Harlan Coben, Hold Tight (dob)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 01:43, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 10:18, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken. ~ Harlan Coben, Hold Tight
 * 3 bystander (talk) 01:43, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 10:18, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly is — and that reality is so horrible they lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity. ~ Harlan Coben, Caught
 * 3 bystander (talk) 01:43, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 10:18, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

Love is like death, it must come to us all, but to each his own unique way and time, sometimes it will be avoided, but never can it be cheated, and never will it be forgotten. ~ Jacob Grimm, goodreads quotes (dob)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 01:43, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 10:18, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

How often when we are comfortable, we begin to long for something new! ~ Jacob Grimm, goodreads quotes
 * 3 bystander (talk) 01:43, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 10:18, 2 January 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 17:31, 3 January 2016 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 17:31, 3 January 2016 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 17:31, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

[The scientific method is] so powerful that it has carried our robotic emissaries to the edge of the solar system and beyond. It has doubled our lifespan, made the lost worlds of the past come alive. Science has enabled us to predict events in the distant future and to communicate with each other at the speed of light, as I am with you, right at this moment. ~ In commemoration of the birthdate of Isaac Newton - widely considered to be one of the greatest scientists who has ever lived - from the fifth episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014) (the sequel to Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980)).
 * 4 Pithy Francoln (talk) 22:24, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:00, 4 January 2017 (UTC) Though I admire both Newton and Sagan, as well as the series being promoted, the relevance to Newton's birthday is somewhat strained, and would prefer something by Newton.

[http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/cosmos-a-spacetime-odyssey/videos/when-knowledge-conquered-fear/ Science works on the frontier between knowledge and ignorance. We're not afraid to admit what we don't know.] There's no shame in that. The only shame is to pretend that we have all the answers. ~ In commemoration of the birthdate of Isaac Newton - widely considered to be one of the greatest scientists who has ever lived - from the second episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).
 * 3 Pithy Francoln (talk) 16:37, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:00, 4 January 2017 (UTC) Though I admire both Newton and Sagan, as well as the series being promoted, the relevance to Newton's birthday is somewhat strained, and would prefer something by Newton.