Thomas Beek

“My wife has been killed by a machine which should never have come into the hands of any human being. It is called a firearm. It makes the blackest of all human wishes come true at once, at a distance: that something die. “There is evil for you. “We cannot get rid of mankind’s fleetingly wicked wishes. We can get rid of the machines that make them come true. “I give you a holy word: DISARM.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Deadeye Dick

“who would publish such a book”
― Dinatarini Devi, Yamuna Devi: A Life of Unalloyed Devotion: Part 2: Offering the Gift of Bhakti to Others

“My goal was to move beyond the popular expositions of relativity and get to grips with the underlying mathematics, the beating heart of the theory (to paraphrase Euclid, there is no royal road to relativity – you have to do the maths).”
― Peter Collier, A Most Incomprehensible Thing: Notes Towards a Very Gentle Introduction to the Mathematics of Relativity

“Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.”
― H. G. Wells