All efforts of persuasion by reasoned argument rely on the implicit assumption that homo sapiens, though occasionally blinded by emotion, is a basically rational animal, aware of the motives of his ow...
Μετά από έξι βδομάδες μοναξιάς, είχα τόσο πολύ σιχαθεί τον εαυτό μου, που μου μιλούσα στον πληθυντικό και με φώναζα κύριο.
The working of the central nervous system is a hierarchic affair in which functions at the higher levels do not deal directly with the ultimate structural units, such as neurons or motor units, but op...
Discovery often means simply the uncovering of something which has always been there but was hidden from the eye by the blinkers of habit.
But where is the jury who decides whether devotion is of the 'right' or the 'misguided' kind?
Rubashov had always believed that he knew himself rather well. Being without moral prejudices, he had no illusions about the phenomenon called the "first person singular" and had taken for granted, wi...
He found out that those processes wrongly known as monologues are really dialogues of a special kind; dialogues in which one partner remains silent while the other against all grammatical rules, addre...
Experience teaches, said Gletkin, that the masses must be given for all difficult and complicated processes a simple, easily grasped explanation. According to what I know of history, I see that mankin...
Every year several million people are killed quite pointlessly by epidemics and other natural catastrophes. And we should shrink from sacrificing a few hundred thousand for the most promising experime...
El marxismo, como el freudianismo ortodoxo, como el catolicismo, es un sistema cerrado. El sistema cerrado excluye la posibilidad de la argumentación objetiva, mediante dos procedimientos relacionados...
But the history of science teaches that most discoveries were made by several people independently from each other, at more or less the same time; and this fact alone (apart from all other considerati...
Una vez hubo un matemático que dijo que el álgebra era una ciencia para la gente perezosa, puesto que uno no conoce el valor de X,pero opera con él como si lo conociese. En nuestro caso, X representa...
The integration of matrices is not a simple operation of adding together. It is a process of mutual interference and cross-fertilization, in the course of which both matrices are transformed in variou...
On successively higher levels of the hierarchy we find more complex, flexible and less predictable patterns of activity, while on successively lower levels we find more and more mechanised, stereotype...
It was a mistake in the system; perhaps it lay in the precept which until now he had held to be uncontestable, in whose name he had sacrificed others and was himself being sacrificed: in the precept,...
Honor is decency without vanity.
Hierarchies are 'dissectible' into their constituent branches, on which the holons form the 'nodes'. The number of levels which a hierarchy comprises is called its 'depth', and the number of holons on...
El odio, como el amor, solo florece donde hay algo en común, donde existe un común denominador.
Dreaming could be described as a de-differentiation of reasoning-matrices and even, up to a point, of personal identity.
But it was Poincare who wrote that what guided him in his unconscious gropings towards the 'happy combinations' which yield new discoveries was 'the feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of n...