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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8d06701 | Despues de todo, la vida es un ameno y grave recorrido por los mas diversos funerales. | Enrique Vila-Matas | ||
| 73580e7 | aunque en realidad seria mas exacto decir que mas bien ha sido el mundo el que ha ido quemando etapas y viajando directo hacia su grandioso final y funeral, ya anunciado por esos versos de Yeats | Enrique Vila-Matas | ||
| dcc9f6f | Dijo que el mundo fue perfecto y amable, y que el mundo perfecto y amable seguia existiendo, pero enterrado como un monton de rosas bajo muchas paladas de tierra. | Enrique Vila-Matas | ||
| e10290b | No queda otra cosa que una gran masa analfabeta creada deliberadamente por el Poder, una especie de muchedumbre amorfa que nos ha hundido a todos en una mediocridad general. | Enrique Vila-Matas | ||
| 9d5c9f6 | un hombre con fe era mas peligroso que una bestia con hambre y que la fe habia de ser puesta en lo mas desdenable y subjetivo. | Enrique Vila-Matas | ||
| 8e7e9be | La vida esta tremendamente por debajo de si misma. No existe, ademas, ni la menor posibilidad de alcanzar la plenitud. | Enrique Vila-Matas | ||
| 06005a5 | Acordaos de esto: cada dia es el mejor del ano. | Enrique Vila-Matas | ||
| 2df26eb | while your unconscious mind is working feverishly to do all those things, you can relax in bed, recognizing, seemingly without effort, the lighting fixture on the ceiling--or the words in this book. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 1700a75 | I wouldn't have to drop out of academia and take a more lucrative position waiting tables at the faculty club. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| deedd2d | In particular, what seems special about humans is our desire and ability to understand what other people think and feel. Called "theory of mind," or "ToM," this ability gives humans a remarkable power to make sense of other people's past behavior and to predict how their behavior will unfold given their present or future circumstances." | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 048c818 | Well, I have been working on my own theory for twelve years," and then he proceeded to describe it in excruciating detail. When he was finished, Feynman turned to me and said, in front of the man who had just proudly described his work, "That's exactly what I mean about wasting your time." | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| c219b5d | German authorities saw the need for a statute explicitly forbidding anyone associated with the university from drenching freshmen with urine, | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 0f89b48 | If someone were to ask about your taste in fine dining and you were to say, "I lean toward food served with vivid adjectives," you'd probably get a pretty strange look;" | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| fb851c6 | In 1932, after nineteen years of research, Bartlett published his results. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 22a8980 | Heisenberg, who was attempting to hold German physics together, resented Schrodinger's departure, "since he was neither Jewish nor otherwise endangered." | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 8b7c315 | The Nazis confiscated his personal property, burned his works on relativity, and put a five-thousand-dollar bounty on his head. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 14605d4 | they left for California, Einstein had told his wife to take a good look at their house. "You will never see it again," he told her." | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| caac3df | Born, barred from teaching and worried about the ongoing harassment of his children, also immediately sought to leave Germany. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| c555bc6 | 1943 Bohr was tipped off by the Swedish ambassador in Copenhagen that he faced immediate arrest as part of the plan to deport all of Denmark's Jews. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 5b986fb | Though you are unaware of it, when you run cool wine over your tongue, you don't just taste its chemical composition; you also taste its price. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| b6958eb | volatile green lion in the central salt of Venus and distill. This spirit is the green lion the blood of the green lion Venus, the Babylonian Dragon that kills everything with its poison, but conquered by being assuaged by the Doves of Diana, it is the Bond of Mercury. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 4f15ac6 | regulations allow for up to ten insect fragments per thirty-one-gram serving. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 692bac8 | Meanwhile, a serving of broccoli may contain sixty aphids and/or mites, | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| ec1aaa2 | while a jar of ground cinnamon may contain four hundred insect fragments. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 21a51a4 | in 1904 he applied for a promotion from patent clerk third class to patent clerk second class and was turned down. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| c3b8f0c | We miss the effects of randomness in life because when we assess the world, we tend to see what we expect to see. We in effect define degree of talent by degree of success and then reinforce our feelings of causality by noting the correlation. That's why although there is sometimes little difference in ability between a wildly successful person and one who is not as successful, there is usually a big difference in how they are viewed. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 9db96ba | The answer lies in a phenomenon called regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| d5db8f7 | A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the two | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 552d9a0 | A pygmy upon a gyants shoulder may see farther than the [giant] himself. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 2de1501 | Leipzig that the university had to pass a rule against throwing stones at professors. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 7957aa7 | if a lecture was not interesting or proceeded too slowly or too quickly, they would jeer and become rowdy. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| c6eee11 | Upon learning of the young man's interest in a physics book, Lindemann, a number theorist, abruptly ended the interview, saying, "In that case you are completely lost to mathematics." | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| bdcdb2e | Unfortunately, in 1861, when he was forty, Buckle caught typhus while traveling in Damascus. Offered the services of a local physician, he refused because the man was French, and so he died. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| a28c03e | theory produces a good deal but hardly brings us closer to the secret of the Old One. I am at all events convinced that He does not play dice. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 5deb35a | They required three thousand Jews, the man said, and the line had apparently held 3,004. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| d39054b | the destination was the local cemetery, where everyone was ordered to dig a mass grave and then was shot dead and buried in it. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| fedbbec | My father had drawn number 3,004 in a death lottery in which German precision trumped Nazi brutality. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 4bb01f1 | Einstein, who was then a professor in Berlin, was by chance visiting Caltech in the United States the day Hitler was appointed. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| bce9764 | Instead, like Heisenberg, his priority seemed to be to preserve as much of German science as possible, while complying with all Nazi laws and regulations. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 0b6f3dd | People seemed to "decide" how much to eat based on box size as much as taste." | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 6e89269 | One end of the spectrum of fantastical thinking is labeled "crackpot," and the other "visionary." | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 419caa4 | Research suggests that when it comes to understanding our feelings, we humans have an odd mix of low ability and high confidence. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| d39f1ab | along with our responses to them, determine | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| c37dd9a | Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of others. --ALBERT EINSTEIN I | Leonard Mlodinow |