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In a work of fiction intended to provide its readers with the sort of experience available to watchers of film a young male character might well be reported as seeing in his mind image after image of himself and a young female character while he and she travelled in the picture bus from their suburb to a neighbouring suburb while they sat together in the Plaza or the Paramount and while they later travelled homeward

The Hellenistic World

The history of the Greek-speaking world in antiquity may be divided into three periods: that of the free City States, which was brought to an end by Philip and Alexander; that of Macedonian domination, of which the last remnant was extinguished by the Roman annexation of Egypt after the death of Cleoptra; and finally that of Roman Empire.

In the corpus of Aristotle's works, three treatises on ethics have a place, but two of these are now generally held to be by disciples. The third, the Nicomachean Ethics, remains for the most part unquestioned as to authenticity, but even in this book there a portion which is held by many to have been incorporated from one of the works of the disciples.

In the corpus of Aristotle's works, three treatises on ethics have a place, but two of these are now generally held to be by disciples. The third, the Nicomachean Ethics, remains for the most part unquestioned as to authenticity, but even in this book there a portion which is held by many to have been incorporated from one of the works of the disciples.

In reading any important philosopher, but most of all in reading Aristotle, it is necessary to study him in two ways: with reference to his predecessors, and with reference to his successors. In the format aspect, Aristotle's merits are enormous; in the latter, his demerits are equally enormous. For his demerits, however, his successors are more responsible than he is.

Plato's cosmogony is set forth in the Timaeus, which was translated into Latin by Cicero, and was, moreover, the only one of the dialogues that was known in the West in the Middle Ages.. Both then, and earlier in Neplatonism, it had more influence than anything else in Plato, which is curious, as it certainly contains more that is simply silly than is to be found in his other writings.

Two opposite attitudes towards the Greeks are common at the present day. One, which was practically universal from Renaissance until very very recent times, views the Greeks with utmost superstitious reverence, as the invention of all that is best, and as men of superhuman genius whom the moderns cannot hope to equal.

Two opposite attitudes towards the Greeks are common at the present day. One, which was practically universal from Renaissance until very very recent times, views the Greeks with utmost superstitious reverence, as the invention of all that is best, and as men of superhuman genius whom the moderns cannot hope to equal.

After dinner, and till the beginning of the evening, Kitty was feeling a sensation akin to the sensation of a young man before a battle. Her heart throbbed violently, and her thoughts would not rest on anything.

She felt that this evening, when they would both meet for the first time, would be a turning point in her life. And she was continually picturing them to herself.

She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not—at least, I firmly believed I did not. I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty should be given to those who made so bad a use of it, and denied to some who would make it a benefit to both themselves and others.

I will not inflict upon my readers an account of my leaving home on that dark winter morning: the fond farewells, the long, long journey to O——, the solitary waitings in inns for coaches or trains—for there were some railways then—and, finally, the meeting at O—— with Mr. Murray’s servant, who had been sent with the phaeton to drive me from thence to Horton Lodge.

In short, mach stands at a remarkable cross road between science, politics, philosophy and literature. And some people still view that natural sciences, humanities and literature else unconnected. Mach's chief polemic target was 18th century mechanism.

Johann Bartok, an engineer's fitter, had been five months married when war broke out. He was called up at once and sent to join an Austrian garrison on the frontier.

The angular momentum of a body persists in time so long as the body is not disturbed by frictional or other forces. This, indeed, is what quantum-mechanical spin is, but now it is the 'spinning' of a single particle itself that concerns us, not the orbiting motion of myriads of individual particles about their common centre of mass (which would be the case for a cricket ball).

Annette Stoll grew up in a small university town in central Germany. She was fresh, fair complexioned little girl, light of heart and prone to laughter, attending school with moderate zeal and very fond of sweets and moving pictures. The playmate of her childhood was young Gerhard Jager, some three years older than herself, thin and lanky, with a partiality for books and serious discussions.

Quantum theory as we know it today arose out of two independent later schemes, which were initiated by a pair of remarkable physicists: a German, Wemer Heisenberg, and an Austrian, Erwin Schrodinger.

Say a body. Where none. No mind. Where none. That at least. A place. Where none. For the body. To be in. Move in. Out of. Back inot. No, no out. No back. Only in. Stay in. On in. Still.

Say a body. Where none. No mind. Where none. That at least. A place. Where none. For the body. To be in. Move in. Out of. Back inot. No, no out. No back. Only in. Stay in. On in. Still.

There are many refinements of viewpoint that can be made. For example, one can argue under the heading of "Platonism' whether the objects of mathematical thought have any kind of actual 'existence' or whether it is just the concept of mathematical 'truth' which is absolute.

The real number system does not, as it turns out, have a monopoly with regard to mathematical power and elegance. There is still a certain awkwardness in that, for example, square roots can be taken only of positive numbers (or zero) and not of negative ones.

A snake is one that has poison. The rest are merely colourful insects. Then again, a snake is snake only as long as it can make use of its poison. That's why a dead snake is no longer a snake.

From where she lies she sees Venus rise. On. From she lies when the skies are clear she sees Venusrise followed by the sun. The she rail at the source of all life. On. At evenong when the skies are clear she savours its star's revenge. At the other window. Rigid upright on her old chair she watches for the radiant one.

The concept of computability is a very important and beautiful mathematical idea. It is also a remarkably recent one as things of such a fundamental nature go in mathematics having been first put forward in the 1930s. It is an idea which cuts across all areas of mathematics (although it may well be true that most mathematicians do not, as yet, often worry
themselves about computability questions).

Another devising it all for company. In the same dark as his creature or in another. Quick imagine. The same.

The cry would echo in the stillness of the night. The caller was sometimes an old man, sometimes a youth, sometimes a woman, and sometimes a child, so one might assume these cries would be quite different, but to me they always sounded the same.

The cry would echo in the stillness of the night. The caller was sometimes an old man, sometimes a youth, sometimes a woman, and sometimes a child, so one might assume these cries would be quite different, but to me they always sounded the same.

Remember that a key result of quantum mechanics is precisely the fact that information is finite. The number of alternative results that we can obtain measuring a physical system is infinite in classical mechanics; but, thanks to quantum theory, we have understood that, in reality, it is finite. Quantum
mechanics can be understood as the discovery that information in nature is
always finite.

If we see the galaxies moving away and the universe expanding, it means that the galaxies were previously much closer and the universe was smaller: and something caused it to start expanding. The young Belgian priest suggests that the universe was originally extremely small and compressed, and started its expansion in a gigantic explosion. He calls this initial state the primordial atom. Big Bang.

I do not remember the story of a bad woman now, but bad in those days I took a kind interests in it, I remember I was overjoyed at learning that her case would be heard at our house, and that she would herself come to see it settled.

There is a paradox at the heart of our understanding of the physical world. General relativity and quantum mechanics, the two jewels that the twentieth century has left us, have been prolific in gifts – for comprehending the world and for today’s technology. From the first of these, cosmology has developed, as well as astrophysics, the study of gravitational waves and of black holes.