The Nazis confiscated his personal property, burned his works on relativity, and put a five-thousand-dollar bounty on his head.
One end of the spectrum of fantastical thinking is labeled crackpot, and the other visionary.
On June 18, 1964, about 11:30 a.m. Mrs. Juanita Brooks, who had been shopping, was walking home along an alley in the San Pedro area of the city of Los Angeles. She was pulling behind her a wicker bas...
Not too long ago, the man who was then the president of Iran was quoted as saying that Jews descended from monkeys and pigs.
In Leipzig [in the 14th century], the university found it necessary to promulgate a rule against throwing stones at the professors. As late as 1495, a German statute explicitly forbade anyone associat...
Dershowitz may have felt justified in misleading the jury because, in his words, the courtroom oath—‘to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth’—is applicable only to witnesses. Defe...
CARL JUNG BELIEVED that to learn about the human experience, it was important to study dreams and mythology. History is the story of events that played out in civilization, but dreams and myths are ex...
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself
A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees farther of the two
Your own species ends up with a name like that when you get to choose it
While your unconscious mind is working feverishly to do all those things, you can relax in bed, recognizing, seemingly without effort, the lighting fixture on the ceiling—or the words in this book.
A bishop should not be condemned except with seventy-two witnesses… a cardinal priest should not be condemned except with forty-four witnesses, a cardinal deacon of the city of Rome without thirty-six...
That’s why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set—the set of people who don’t give up.
My father had drawn number 3,004 in a death lottery in which German precision trumped Nazi brutality.
Just as, looking at a Rorschach blot, you might see Madonna and I, a duck-billed platypus, the data we encounter in business, law, medicine, sports, the media, or your child’s third-grade report card...
It’s the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong. —Tom Stoppard, Arcadia, 1993
I wouldn’t have to drop out of academia and take a more lucrative position waiting tables at the faculty club.