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“In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.”
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“A good man complains of no one; he does not look to faults.”
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“The remarkable insights that science affords us into the intelligible workings of the world cry out for an explanation more profound than that which itself can provide. Religion, if it is to take seriously its claim that the world is the creation of god, must be humble enough to learn from science what that world is actually like. The dialogue between them can only be mutually enriching.”
Source : John Polkinghorne (1995). “Serious Talk: Science and Religion in Dialogue”, p.75, A&C Black
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“Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?”
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“If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.”
Source : Ernst Mach (1914). “The Analysis of Sensations, and the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical”
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“Before the change of regime in 1989, you couldn't talk about anti-Semitism, and after the regime change, people started to talk about taboo subjects. I was 8 years old in those days, and later, in politics and society, these extreme wright ideologies got stronger - the skinhead movement was started, a lot of ex-Nazis emigrated and financially supported these extreme right movements in Hungary.”
Source : Source: www.salon.com
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“Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.”
Source : Letter to Harold Preece, c. January or February 1928.
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“... I love books about freaks," because I am one. You might be, too. Let's be freaks together?”
