All this attempt to control... We are talking about Western attitudes that are five hundred years old... The basic idea of science - that there was a new way to look at reality, that it was objective,...
وأخيرًا قلتُ لهرغر: المطر بارد.فضحك ثم قال: كيف يمكن أن يكون المطر باردًا؟! أنت البارد وأنت التعيس! أما المطر فليس باردًا ولا تعيسًا.
The system didn't screw you. The system revealed you.
Hammond shook his head sadly. Yet, you’ll remember, he said, the original genetic engineering companies, like Genentech and Cetus, were all started to make pharmaceuticals. New drugs for mankind. Nobl...
Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.
If you didn’t know history, you didn’t know anything. You were a leaf that didn’t know it was part of a tree.
Thirty thousand years ago; when men were doing cave paintings at Lascaux, they worked twenty hours a week to provide themselves with food and shelter and clothing. The rest of the time, they could pla...
They want the Indians eliminated, and the lands opened up to white settlers, but they don't want anybody to get hurt in the process. That just ain't possible.
It’s marked as an object, Wu said. In computer terminology, an object was a block of code that could be moved around and used, the way you might move a chair in a room.
It is not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw.
In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all.
I suspect that scientists are driven by the sense that the world out there - reality - contains a hidden order, and the scientist is trying to elucidate the hidden order in our reality. And that impul...
El rasgo humano característico no es la conciencia sino el conformismo, y el resultado característico es la guerra religiosa. Otros animales luchan por el territorio o el alimento; los seres humanos,...
At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.
يردد أهل الشمال مثلا شعبيا يقول : انظر خلفك وهم يعتقدون بأن على كل انسان أن يكون مهيئا دائما لان يدافع عن نفسه
What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species...
Ted, have you ever stayed in a Third-World village? Even for one night?
Power is neither male nor female. Katharine Graham
Parrots can definitely reason symbolically.
On the contrary: the advantage of a role-reversal story is that it may enable us to examine aspects concealed by traditional responses and conventional rhetoric.