“The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it.” WorldActionThis WorldMethod Author:Sophie Swetchine
“The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system.” LyingSpiralsStellarHubble Space Telescope Author:Edwin Powell Hubble
“I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.” IfsDefeatEnormous Author:Edward Teller
“Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.” SimplePhysicsHopefullyPhysicistHydrogen Bomb Author:Edward Teller
“The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.” MindHumansBodyImaginationAnimalViewsCompanyConnectionsPoint Of ViewHuman MindHuman BodyObservingMind And BodyExceedIntricate Author:John Desmond Bernal
“The problem [of specialization] is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and there is a temporary halting until they are again in working order.” ProblemActionOrderCommunicationArmyTemporaryRapidsDisorganized Author:John Desmond Bernal
“The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.” ImportantShowsSocialEconomyPositionDevelopmentRemoveMarxismDetachmentRelevanceSocial Development Author:John Desmond Bernal
“For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history. But, above all, one is led to misjudge the present, because only the study of historical development permits the weighing and evaluation of the interrelationships among the components of the present-day society.” SaidStudyMinutesDevelopmentHistoricalYesterdayPermitComponentsPresent DayEvaluationWeighingYesterday Is History Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
“Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.” WorldFirstsHumansHeartCountryEarthResponsibilityClassCrimeAdventureBearsCivilizationDiscoveryDestructionBelongingOur WorldNew WorldContinentsBeing HumanDwellers Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
“I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.” IfsEndsBodyHateHouseGoneStageI HateMirrorsAnorexiaShortsSelf HatredBrasSelf Hate Author:Fiona Apple