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People have amazing facilities for sensing something without knowing where it comes from (intuition); for sensing that some phenomenon or situation or object is like…
Comments closedIn 1950, Norman Mailer commented as follows in a letter to William Styron: I didn’t write [The] Naked [and the Dead] because I wanted to…
Comments closedSome excerpts from the review that resonate with me: Michalski follows Heidegger in holding that concepts, which we ordinarily employ to make sense of our…
Comments closedExperiences on controversies such as these brings out the impossibility of learning anything from facts till they are examined and interpreted by reason; and teaches…
Comments closedData alone doesn’t have a voice. There is no substitute for theorizing and modeling. From a letter by Steven Weinberg in the NYR of Books…
Comments closedI once read this in the Economist, in the year 2000, I believe, but cannot find the reference. Sir- Your article on irony (A quiet…
Comments closedKoestler on Newton “What he achieved was rather like an explosion in reverse. When a projectile blows up, its shiny smooth symmetrical body is shattered…
Comments closedI was thinking about the futility of low interest rates and easy credit as the cure for everything and a Yiddish proverb my parents used…
Comments closed“His great discoveries were like exquisitely carved marble statues falling from out of the sky, one after another. He seemed to be able to conjure…
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