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""During his very first week in India, Giuseppe had learned not to look at the poor. Not to look them in the eye. ... But if you kept your eyes fixed straight ahead and remained ice cold, they left you alone. In India, it was a matter of ignoring the poverty when you were out in the streets and waiting to weep until you were alone. Otherwise it would tear you apart."" — 13 hours, 12 min ago
""During his very first week in India, Giuseppe had learned not to look at the poor. Not to look them in the eye. ... But if you kept your eyes fixed straight ahead and remained ice cold, they left you alone. In India, it was a matter of ignoring the poverty when you were out in the streets and waiting to weep until you were alone. Otherwise it would tear you apart."" — 13 hours, 12 min ago
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"The way of life means continuing. Continuing means going far. Going far means returning." — Jan 01, 2026 05:16PM
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One of the best expositions (if not THE best) of the physics behind the Big Bang.
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""The occurrence in cosmology of a pure number as small as 10^-9 has led some theorists to suppose that it is really zero (equal amounts of matter and antimatter)" Then before T = 10^13 Kelvin (the threshold temperature for protons and neutrons) there was a segregation of the universe into different domains. ..."" — Dec 29, 2025 09:45AM
""The occurrence in cosmology of a pure number as small as 10^-9 has led some theorists to suppose that it is really zero (equal amounts of matter and antimatter)" Then before T = 10^13 Kelvin (the threshold temperature for protons and neutrons) there was a segregation of the universe into different domains. ..."" — Dec 29, 2025 09:45AM
“No, they were there, these missionaries, to fulfill some spiritual need of their own. It was a noble need, its purposes unselfish, partaking doubtless of that divine need through which God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son for its salvation. But somewhere I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself.”
― My Several Worlds
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