People are more likely to refrain from violence out of preference for a nonviolent existence than they are to do so out of fear of punishment.
A normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought of as a child.
Violent actors act violently not because they are mentally ill or come from violent subcultures or are brain damaged or have low self-esteem but because they have different phantom communities from th...
The physics faculty of the University of Berlin included Nobel laureates Albert Einstein, Max Planck and Max von Laue,
The civil machinery which ensured the carrying out of this law, and the military organization which turned numbers of men into battalions and divisions, were each founded on a bureaucracy. The product...
The English were the first to expel the Jews entirely. The Jews of England belonged to the Crown, which had systematically extracted their wealth through a special Exchequer to the Jews. By 1290 it ha...
Generosity is meaningless to a god, who never suffers shortage or want; courage is meaningless to a god, who is immortal and can never suffer permanent injury, and so on. Our virtues and our dignity a...
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution.
Consider Rutherford playing his thoroughly unlikely hunch about alpha backscattering, Heisenberg remembering an obscure remark of Einstein’s and concluding that nature only performed in consonance wit...
Anne Harrington de Santana, has discerned that nuclear weapons have acquired the status of fetish objects; like the coin of the realm in relation to commodities, our glittering warheads have become ma...
84 percent of the theoreticians were the sons of professional men, typically engineers, physicians and teachers, although a minority of experimentalists were farmers’ sons.
Two examiners, said simply that hardly anyone in Denmark was well enough informed on the subject to judge the candidate’s work.
Does not even try to give us complete information about the events around us—it gives information about the correlations between
We were reasonably strong, but I mean we were, after all, thinkers. So Dean Pegram again looked around and said that seems to be a job a little bit beyond your feeble strength, but there is a football...
We can imagine that this complicated array of moving things which constitutes the world is something like a great chess game being played by the gods, and we are observers of the game. We do not know...
Twentieth Century Book of the Dead.
The world is full of terrible suffering, compared to which the small inconveniences of my childhood are as a drop of rain in the sea.
The best way to do the job, Polanyi argued, was to allow each worker to keep track of what every other worker was doing.
Such a choice—to tolerate the brutalization of children as we continue to do—is equally violent and equally evil, and we reap what we sow.
Mechanical proficiency and practical gadgets in America counterbalanced to an extent the beauty of Italy.