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Monthly Archives: June 2008
The New Atlantis » The Motives That Ought to Encourage Us to the Sciences
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
We need a form of happiness that can go with us through all life’s stages: life is so short that we ought to reject any felicity that does not last as long as we do. An idle old age is the only burden; old age in itself is not, for if old age degrades us [...]
Chandrasekhar Limit — from Eric Weisstein’s World of Physics
Monday, June 23, 2008
Sometimes, you can’t get around it: “”
Churchill and His Myths - The New York Review of Books
Sunday, June 22, 2008
“Non offro nè paga, nè quartiere, nè provvigioni. Offro fame, sete, marce forzate, battaglie e morte”
TWILIGHT OF A LIVING GOD
Friday, June 20, 2008
“As with Mahatma Gandhi or Mother Teresa, the myth will take over and the person will become a mere icon, hollowed out and revered, but little understood.”
(Via More Intelligent Life -.)