“science has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are always, in fact, the work of specific individuals; but, save perhaps for rare exceptions, the value of any result depends on such a complex set of interrelations with past discoveries and possible future researches that even the mind of the inventor cannot embrace the whole.” MindLongWholeFactsPastScienceValuesIndividualResultsDependsLong TimeResearchDiscoveryEmbraceComplexesEnterpriseCollectivesExceptionInventor Book:The Simone Weil Reader Source: The Simone Weil Reader
“The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force somehow became the serendipitous child of Newton's genius. The new attitude is well illustrated by the anecdote of the apple, a legend spread by Voltaire, one of the most active and vehement erasers of the past. ... The need to build the myth of an ex nihilo creation of modern science gave rise to much impassioned rhetoric.” ThinkingNeedsWellsChildrenLongAgePastForceConsciousnessAttitudeModernCreationGeniusSpreadActiveMythApplesCollectivesLegendsRhetoricExesNewtonModern ScienceAnecdotesGravitationCollective ConsciousnessErasersImpassionedVehementNew Attitude Author:Lucio Russo
“I sincerely believe that the collective efforts of many secularists during the past generation, resulting in the expulsion from our schools and from the public square, has left us vulnerable.” BelieveHumorSchoolPastLeftReligiousEffortGenerationsPositive AtheismVulnerableCollectivesSquaresSincerelyExpulsionPast GenerationsCollective Effort Author:Jerry Falwell
“Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.” FeelsSelfPastResponsibilityDebtUncomfortableTelling The TruthCollectivesQuestioningSensibilityJudaismSelf Questioning Book:The Memory Chalet Source: The Memory Chalet