“The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. —NDT”
― Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
― Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
“..reading a book doesn’t mean just turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back to, asking how to place it in a broader context, pursuing the ideas. There’s no point in reading a book if you let it pass before your eyes and then forget about it ten minutes later. Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions, imagination.”
― Occupy
― Occupy
“فأنى له بالعيون التي يتبصص بها عليكم إن لم تقرضوه إياها ؟ وكيف له بالأكف التي بها يصفعكم إن لم يستمدها منكم ؟ أنى له بالأقدام التي يدوسكم بها إن لم تكن أقدامكم ؟ كيف يقوى عليكم إن لم يقوى بكم ؟ كيف يجرؤ على مهاجمتكم لولا تواطؤكم معه ؟ أي قدرة له عليكم إن لم تكونوا حماة اللص الذي ينهبكم, شركاء للقاتل الذي يصرعكم, خونة لأنفسكم ؟ تبذرون الحب ليذريه. تؤثثون بيوتكم وتملؤونها حتى تعظم سرقاته.”
― Discours de la servitude volontaire
― Discours de la servitude volontaire
“We have developed from the geocentric cosmologies of Ptolemy and his forebears, through the heliocentric cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo, to the modern picture in which the earth is a medium-sized planet orbiting around an average star in the outer suburbs of an ordinary spiral galaxy, which is itself only one of about a million million galaxies in the observable universe.”
― A Brief History of Time
― A Brief History of Time
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