We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
~ Niels Bohr
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Author Archives: James Patrick Tedrow
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The history of mankind and the place of the economy in it, is not, as the evolutionists would have it, an account of unconscious growth and organic continuity. Such an approach would necessarily obscure some aspects of economic development vital to men in the present phase of transition. For the dogma of organic continuity must, in the last resort, weaken man’s power of shaping his own history.
― Karl Polanyi
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It is the nature of men to act negatively but to dream and hope positively.
~ Edmund Cooper
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First delight, then instruct.
~ Karl Friedrich Schinkel
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The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Practical people have little idea of the practical ability required to write a large book, and especially a large history.
~ Walter Bagehot
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I believe in God, only I spell it “Nature”.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
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Nvidia was founded on this day in 1993
The Nvidia Corporation – one of the dominant suppliers of artificial intelligence hardware – was founded on this day – April 5 – in 1993.
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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.
~ James Baldwin
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Even in the Quietest Moments …
was released on this day in 1977
Even in the Quietest Moments … – the fifth studio album released by Supertramp – was released on this day – April 3 – in 1977 by A&M Records.
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