Vea cosas que no se ven.
That’s marijuana.” It was one of the few times in his life that he faced his father’s anger. “That was the only real fight I ever got in with my dad,” he.
Knowing when to stand firm on principle or when to find common ground with your fellow citizens is the most important, and also the most difficult, activity in a democracy. There’s no simple formula for it. That is why it is so useful to have narratives...
Einstein suggested that he might be willing to move there, buy a villa, and become an engineer rather than a theoretical physicist.
Respete los hechos.
I always understood the beauty of things made by hand. I came to realize that what was really important was the care that was put into it.
The obvious yet still astonishing conclusion: with no such thing as absolute simultaneity, there is no such thing as “real” or absolute time.
Simplicity and unity, he intuitively believed, were hallmarks of the Old One’s handiwork. “A theory is more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises, the more different things it relates, and the more expanded its area of applicability,” he wrote.
A few decades from now, if it becomes possible and safe, should we allow parents to enhance the IQ and muscles of their kids? Should we let them decide eye color? Skin color? Height?
To him, marriage was confining, which was a state he instinctively resisted.
Piense visualmente.
Evite los compartimentos estancos.
Tenga ambiciones desmedidas.
He was not able to achieve inner calm. Kottke remembers him getting into a furious shouting match with a Hindu woman in a village marketplace who, Jobs alleged, had.
There was a simple set of formulas that defined Einstein’s outlook. Creativity required being willing not to conform. That required nurturing free minds and free spirits, which in turn required ” a spirit of tolerance.” And the underpinning of tolerance was humility – the belief that no one had the right to impose ideas and beliefs on others.
Upon the whole, I am much disposed to like the world as I find it, and to doubt my own judgment as to what would mend it.
TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY MACS Setting Apple Apart.
But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers.
Someday we may consider it unethical not to use germline editing to alleviate human suffering.
HOW TO EXPLAIN the striking contrast between Eisenhower’s sweepingly successful leadership of the Allied cause in Europe during World War II and his disappointing failure to provide leadership to the cause of civil rights as president?