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You are free because you are willing to walk
where ever you go if you leave science you are likely to face the same fight, because it is in the nature of modern life and modern organizations. So why not stay to fight it in a place where the outcome can be to discover truth ( Read more... ) -
In the new social environment, the rich and the powerful have been doing mighty well for themselves
They can be insufferably smug, much more so than the people who knew they had achieved advancement not on their own merit but because they were, as somebody's son or daughter, the beneficiaries of nepotism. The newcomers can actually believe they have morality on their side. Leave a commentМысль дня
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"Идолопоклонство совершают не только поклоняющиеся фальшивым богам, но и насаждающие страх перед фальшивыми дьяволами. Те, кто приучает людей бояться войны, алкоголя или законов экономики вместо духовного разложения и трусости"
Г.К.Честертон
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting ( Read more... )looking at them side by side, is that while these are both books about mathematical modeling
Chaikin and Lubensky presents empirical data, compares theoretical predictions to experimental results, and goes into some detail into the considerations which lead to this sort of model for nematic liquid crystals, or that model for magnetism. There is absolutely nothing like this in Blanchard and Fischer - no data at all, no comparison of models ( Read more... )Что происходит дальше?
Творчество предстает, как сбор паззла, причем поверхность, на которой он собирается, выставляется из вторичных чувств: из комфорта, удобства, опять же «высокой эстетики». Происходит именно создание пост-религии! И так делается современная математика. Научное сообщество, имеющее доступ к средствам и методам данной религии, объявляется ( Read more... )Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness
It would seem that human beings are not able to describe, nor perhaps to imagine, happiness except in terms of contrast. That is why the conception of Heaven or Utopia varies from age to age. In pre-industrial society Heaven was described as a place of endless rest, and as being paved with gold, because the experience of the average human being was ( Read more... )Yet, at least for the intelligentsia, life in the fin-de-siecle USSR had its compensations
No one had very much money, but no one had to do very much work either. The result was an entire society which acted as if it had never left college: intense, emotional, time-consuming friendships; endless hours spent drinking tea or vodka and discussing the meaning of life; the avid pursuit of esoteric spiritual or creative interests. If middle- ( Read more... )It is not mere business; it is not even mere cynicism. It is mysticism;
In our society, temperance will not help a poor man to enrich himself, but it may help him to respect himself. Good work will not make him a rich man, but good work may make him a good workman. The Industrious Apprentice rose by virtues few and narrow indeed, but still virtues. But what shall we say of the gospel preached to the new Industrious ( Read more... )
