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Quote by Steven Weinberg

“In trying to get votes for the Superconducting Super Collider, I was very much involved in lobbying members of Congress, testifying to them, bothering them, and I never heard any of them talk about postmodernism or social constructivism. You have to be very learned to be that wrong.”

Book:Facing Up

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Facing Up

This book delves into the challenges and opportunities of confronting one's fears and insecurities to achieve personal development and fulfillment. more

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Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg is a renowned theoretical physicist known for his contributions to particle physics and cosmology. In 1967, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow, for their work on the unification of the weak interaction. more

“Somewhere in the child, somewhere in the adult, there is a hard, irreducible, stubborn core of biological urgency, and biological necessity, and biological reason that culture cannot reach and that reserves the right, which sooner or later it will exercise, to judge the culture and resist and revise it.”

Children Hard Reason Culture Judging Exercise Adults Core Reserves Sooner Or Later Stubborn Urgency

Author:Lionel Trilling

“Everything which the economist takes from you in the way of life and humanity, he restores to you in the form of money and wealth.”

Way Form Humanity Wealth Economist

Book:Sincerity and Authenticity

Source: Sincerity and Authenticity

“Freud ... showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind ; he saw the mind as being, in the greater part of its tendency, exactly a poetry-making faculty.”

Mind Saws Greater Constitution Tendencies Poetry Is Faculty Indigenous

Book:Freud and the Crisis of Our Culture. (2. Print.)

Source: Freud and the Crisis of Our Culture. (2. Print.)

“Economic man and the Calvinist Christian sing to each other like voices in a fugue. The Calvinist stands alone before an almost merciless God; no human agency can help him; his church is a means to political and social organization rather than a bridge to deity, for no priest can have greater knowledge of the divine way than he himself; no friend can console him - in fact, he should distrust all men; in the same fashion, Economic Man faces a merciless world alone and unaided, his hand against every other's.”