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...
Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of...
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...
Good things can be created from bad.
Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
The fact is: I no longer believe in my own infallibility. That is why I am lost.
Leaving controversial issues aside, the first and main purpose of this book may be summed up by a phrase of Laplace: If we were able to make an exact catalogue of all particles and forces which are ac...
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...
Generally speaking, words like 'agent of,' 'Democracy,' 'Freedom,' etc. meant something quite different in Party usage from what they meant in general usage; and as, furthermore, even their Party mean...
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
When one contemplates the streak of insanity running through human history, it appears highly probable that homo sapiens is a biological freak, the result of some remarkable mistake in the evolutionar...
What a mess, [Rubashov] said, what a mess we have made of our golden age.Ivanov smiled. Maybe, he said happily. Look at the Gracchi and Saint Just and the Commune of Paris. Up to now, all revolutions...
The sole object of revolution was the abolition of senseless suffering. But it had turned out that the removal of this second kind of suffering was only possible at the price of a temporary enormous i...
Perhaps he did not know himself - like all these intellectual cynics...
It was quiet in the cell. Rubashov heard only the creaking of his steps on the tiles. Six and a half steps to the door, whence they must come to fetch him,six and a half steps to the window, behind wh...
Honor is decency without vanity.
For Pythagoras as for Kepler, the two kinds of contemplation were twins; for them philosophy and religion were motivated by the same longing : to catch glimpses of eternity through the window of time.
En la ecuación social, el valor de una sola vida es cero; en la ecuación cósmica, es infinito.
Courage is never letting your actions be influenced by your fears.
Οι άνθρωποι δεν είναι συνέχεια δυστυχισμένοι παρά μόνο στα κακά μυθιστορήματα· στην πραγματικότητα είναι πολύ απασχολημένοι.