Wars are not fought for territory but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious diseases. And where there is an epidemi...
I don't approve of mixing ideologies, Ivanov continued. There are only two conceptions of human ethics, and they are at opposite poles. One of them is Christian and humane, declares the individual to...
The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
Should we sit with idle hands because the consequences of an act are never quite to be foreseen, and hence all action is evil?
I am trying to stress a point which they do not sufficiently emphasize, or tend to overlook altogether-namely, that the organism is not a mosaic aggregate of elementary physico-chemical processes, but...
Nothing is worse in prison than the consciousness of one's innocenc; it prevents acclimatizatin and undermines one's morale...
Satan, on the contrary, is thin, ascetic and a fanatical devotee of logic. He reads Machiavelli, Ignatius of Loyola, Marx and Hegel; he is cold and unmerciful to mankind, out of a kind of mathematical...
Huxley was haunted by the fear that this 'Final Revolution', brought about by the combined effect of drugs and the mass media, could create 'within a generation or so for entire societies a sort of pa...
History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes.
As we ascend to the hierarchies of living matter, we find, even on the lowest level observable through the electron microscope, sub-cellular structures-organelles-of staggering complexity. And the mos...
روباشف آخرینبار که به زندان افتاده بود بارها کتک خورده بود، ولی دربارهی این روش (شکنجه) فقط شایعاتی شنیده بود. یاد گرفته بود که هر درد جسمانیِ شناختهشدهای قابل تحمل است. اگر کسی پیشاپیش بداند که د...
The two together-intellectual illumination and emotional catharsis-are the essence of the aesthetic experience. The first constitutes the moment of truth; the second provides the experience of beauty....
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
The integrative powers of life are manifested in the phenomena of symbiosis between organelles, in the varied forms of partnership within the same species or between different species; in the phenomen...
Sympathy, conscience, disgust, despair, repentance, and atonement are for us repellent debauchery. To sit down and let oneself be hypnotized by one’s own navel, to turn up one’s eyes and humbly offer...
Matrices vary from fully automatized skills to those with a high degree of plasticity; but even the latter are controlled by rules of the game which function below the level of awareness. These silent...
It is not difficult to imagine the Catholic Church adopting, after a Tychonic transition, the Copernican cosmology some 200 years earlier than she eventually did. The Galileo affair was an isolated ep...
Helen Spurway concluded from the evidence of homology that the organism has only 'a restricted mutation spectrum' which 'determines its possibilities of evolution'.
Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations.
Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.