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.
Notes, that the original unlicensed device was a ‘couch potato’–like remote control for radio receivers. So the 1939 Philco Mystery Control once again revealed its originality.) If all this bureaucrat...
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...
The physics faculty of the University of Berlin included Nobel laureates Albert Einstein, Max Planck and Max von Laue,
The bow of the Carpathians as they curve around northwestward begins to define the northern border of Czechoslovakia. Long before it can complete that service the bow bends down toward the Austrian Al...
The best way to do the job, Polanyi argued, was to allow each worker to keep track of what every other worker was doing.
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution.
Einstein had judged it too large and moved into a small secretarial annex nearby.
About one hundred refugee physicists emigrated to the United States between 1933 and 1941.727
A group of refugee scientists was gathered outside the Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford the next morning discussing the Munich agreement when Frederick Lindemann drove up.937 Churchill had described the...
Trained no fewer than eleven Nobel Prize winners during his life, an unsurpassed record.
The highest form of musicality in the sphere of thought.
Scientific opinion remains essentially mutual; it is established between scientists, not above them.
On his first visit to the Los Alamos Tech Area, when he had encountered von Neumann discussing theory with dark, intense Edward Teller, the tremendously long formulae on the blackboard had scared him....
It is possible to argue that some people are violent and mentally ill, but it is no longer defensible to argue that people are violent because they are mentally ill.
With personal intervention on behalf of the principle of openness, which exposes crime as well as error to public view, Niels Bohr played a decisive part in the rescue of the Danish Jews.
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...
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 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 difference between the thinking of the paranoid patient and the scientist comes from the latter’s ability and willingness to test out his fantasies or grandiose conceptualizations through the syst...