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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate read more
There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians" think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.
Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.
Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. read more
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed...
Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality
Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity read more
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." read more
In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
