<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=547441" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bringing Triumph To The Brain</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Advances in research depend<br>on unexpected brilliant breaks<br>the gods fortuitously send<br>not triumphs born of our mistakes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gruesome often is the fate<br>emerging from a triumph, but<br>mistakes will often impregnate<br>a barren mind that had been shut.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Although by blind spots we’re deceived, <br>and inspiration tends to wane, <br>errors that we have conceived<br>may bring triumph to our brain.<br> </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Inspired by Owen Gingerich’s review of Ingrid D. Rowland’s book “Giordano Bruno” (The Long Road to Infinity, ” WSJ, December 19,2008) : </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Part of her purpose, she says, is to portray Bruno as a literary figure: “He was perhaps, more a poet than an empirical observer. Yet his intellectual contradictions, his blind spots and his insights serve as a reminder that scientific investigation has always depended on inspiration as well as investigation, on mistakes as well as triumphs.”..Ms. Rowland’s gripping chronicle gives a clear picture of his pilgrimage and a vivid, horrifying account of his trial and gruesome fate––in Rome’s public square.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">12/19/08</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gershon+Hepner">Gershon Hepner</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=547441" data-title="Bringing Triumph To The Brain de Gershon Hepner" data-description="Advances in research depend on unexpected brilliant breaks the gods fortuitously send not triumphs born of our mistakes. Gruesome often is the fate emerging from a triumph, but mistakes will often impregnate a barren mind that had been shut. Alt..."></div> </div> </div>

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