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 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...
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...
Hay dos clases de valentía: la del valiente y la del cobarde
En la ecuación social, el valor de una sola vida es cero; en la ecuación cósmica, es infinito.
Οι άνθρωποι δεν είναι συνέχεια δυστυχισμένοι παρά μόνο στα κακά μυθιστορήματα· στην πραγματικότητα είναι πολύ απασχολημένοι.
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...
The cause of the Party’s defectiveness must be found. All our principles were right, but our results were wrong. This is a diseased century. We diagnosed the disease and its causes with microscopic ex...
The Copernican system was not a truly heliocentric one; it was a vacuo-centric system, so to speak.
Perhaps he did not know himself - like all these intellectual cynics...
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...
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...
Courage is never letting your actions be influenced by your fears.
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
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...
The earliest discovery of Pasteur, and for him the most exciting in all his life, was the asymmetry of molecules as a specific characteristic of living organisms-in other words, the fact that the mole...
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...
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...
They dreamed of power with the object of abolishing power; of ruling over the people to wean them from the habit of being ruled.
The satirist's most effective weapon is irony. Its aim is to defeat the opponent on his own ground by pretending to accept his premises, his values, his methods of reasoning, in order to expose their...