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""The fact that atomic energy is used in warfare does not make international conflicts prob-lems in physics; likewise, the fact that the brain is used in human behavior does not make moral and personal conflicts problems in medicine."" — Apr 13, 2026 12:25AM
""The fact that atomic energy is used in warfare does not make international conflicts prob-lems in physics; likewise, the fact that the brain is used in human behavior does not make moral and personal conflicts problems in medicine."" — Apr 13, 2026 12:25AM
to demand good and satisfying answers from the powers that be, or just from some slightly nervous human being who is a bit put off by your forthrightness. Be especially demanding of those people: They are the ones who are standing in your
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“O my brothers, I dedicate and direct you to a new nobility: you shall become procreators and cultivators and sowers of the future — verily, not to a nobility that you might buy like shopkeepers and with shopkeepers' gold: for whatever has its price has little value. Not whence you came shall henceforth constitute your honor, but whither you are going! Your will and your foot which has a will to go over and beyond yourselves — that shall constitute your new honor.”
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“I also fell in love with Borges. He is a mathematician’s writer. His short stories are like mathematical proofs, delicately constructed and with ideas laced together effortlessly. Each step is taken with precision and watertight logic, yet the narrative is full of surprising twists and turns.”
― Symmetry: A Journey into the Patterns of Nature
― Symmetry: A Journey into the Patterns of Nature
“People who have acquired academic degrees, without acquiring many economically meaningful skills, not only face personal disappointment and disaffection with society, but also have often become negative factors in the economy and even sources of danger, especially when they lash out at economically successful minorities and ethnically polarize the whole society they live in. . . . . In many places and times, soft-subject students and intellectuals have inflamed hostility, and sometimes violence, against many other successful groups.”
― Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective
― Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective
“Worry! What a waste of time. All the holy books were right. Clearly ‘worry’ was the mark of a primitive and spiritually unevolved person. What was that line from Yeats, about the bemused Chinese sages? All things fall and are built again. Ancient glittering eyes. This was wisdom. People had been raging and weeping and destroying things for centuries and wailing about their puny individual lives, when—what was the point? All this useless sorrow? Consider the lilies of the field. Why did anyone ever worry about anything? Weren’t we, as sentient beings, put upon the earth to be happy, in the brief time allotted to us?”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“The worst thing that can happen to a socialist is to have his country ruled by socialists who are not his friends.”
― Marxism Unmasked: From Delusion to Destruction
― Marxism Unmasked: From Delusion to Destruction
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