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| 28cd09d | Is the world divided into mind and matter, and, if so, what is mind, what is matter? Is mind subject to matter, or is it possessed of independent powers? Has the universe any unity or purpose? Is it evolving towards some goal? Are there really laws of nature, or do we believe in them only because of our innate love of order? Is man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water impotently crawling on a small and uni.. | John C. Lennox | ||
| 09d49ae | faith and evidence are inseparable. Indeed, faith is a response to evidence, not a rejoicing in the absence of evidence. The Christian apostle John writes in his biography of Jesus: 'These things are written that you might believe...'5 That is, he understands that what he is writing is to be regarded as part of the evidence on which faith is based. The apostle Paul says what many pioneers of modern science believed, namely, that nature itse.. | John C. Lennox | ||
| 1905ef7 | Modern bilim, ortacagda Tanri'nin rasyonelligi konusundaki israrin neticesinde ortaya cikmistir. | tanrı | John C. Lennox | |
| 99498fa | The teaching of morality likewise lies outside science. Science can tell you that, if you add strychnine to someone's drink, it will kill them. But science cannot tell you whether it is morally right or wrong to put strychnine into your grandmother's tea so that you can get your hands on her property. | John C. Lennox | ||
| 77087a7 | The existence of a limit to science is, however, made clear by its inability to answer childlike elementary questions having to do with first and last things - questions such as: "How did everything begin?" "What are we all here for?" "What is the point of living?"." | John C. Lennox | ||
| 65c36d0 | Of course, I reject atheism because I believe Christianity to be true. But I also reject it because I am a scientist. How could I be impressed with a worldview that undermines the very rationality we need to do science? Science and God mix very well. It is science and atheism that do not mix. | christianity science | John C. Lennox | |
| 98d93da | Czeslaw Milosz, who had reason to know, writes: "A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death -- the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders, we are not going to be judged."54 Thus, if God does exist, atheism can be seen as a psychological escape mechanism to avoid taking ultimate responsibility for one's own life." | John C. Lennox | ||
| fd1f0e1 | Can we ask with Richard Feynman: 'What is the meaning of it all?' Or was Bertrand Russell right when he said that 'The universe is just there, and that's all'? | John C. Lennox | ||
| 7aee1f6 | Okay, a couple more: I happen to believe that economic success lies in the hands of SMEs, small and medium-sized enterprises. Four books I give away on SMEs are: George Whalin's Retail Superstars: Inside the Twenty-five Best Independent Stores in America (Favorite line: "Be the best, it's the only market that's not crowded."), Bo Burlingham's Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big, Bill Taylor's Simply Brilliant: How.. | Timothy Ferris | ||
| bb0ef24 | Unluckier still was Guillaume Le Gentil, whose experiences are wonderfully summarized by Timothy Ferris in Coming of Age in the Milky Way. Le Gentil set off from France a year ahead of time to observe the transit from India, but various setbacks left him still at sea on the day of the transit--just about the worst place to be since steady measurements were impossible on a pitching ship. Undaunted, Le Gentil continued on to India to await th.. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 5188bb2 | El futuro ya esta aqui, solo que se reparte de manera desigual.>> | Timothy Ferris | ||
| 59a092e | El 50 por ciento de lo que sabemos es erroneo. El problema es que no sabemos que 50 por ciento es.>> | Timothy Ferris | ||
| a55f763 | Observatories are built on mountains to raise them above the thick, turbulent lower levels of the atmosphere. In principle, the higher the telescope the better. In practice, the expense of building mountain roads and the severity of high-altitude weather inspires a willingness to compromise. Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii, which may be the highest observatory that will ever be built on Earth, stands at nearly 14,000 feet, where gale-force .. | Timothy Ferris | ||
| a0b5117 | Ferry goes on to argue that almost all our possible answers to those big philosophical issues come from five or six major systems of thought. And today so many of the most common answers come from one system in particular. For example: Do you think it's generally a good idea to be kind to your enemies and reach out to them rather than kill them? Ferry says this idea--that you should love your enemies--came from Christianity and nowhere else.. | Timothy Keller | ||
| c2889aa | Great doubt: great awakening. Little doubt: little awakening. No doubt: no awakening. --ZEN MAXIM | Timothy Ferris | ||
| cc52027 | What is one of the best or most worthwhile investments you've ever made? Flying trapeze lessons. It's like shock therapy for the soul. Once you're 50 feet high, soaring on a trapeze, it's just you, your fear, and your instincts. It's the most intimate experience I've had with myself. | Timothy Ferris | ||
| 2fa68c3 | I have no outcome I want from it, and I've never been in better shape in my life. It helped me realize that the secret to change and growth is not willpower, but positive community. | Timothy Ferris | ||
| 65a376a | Five years ago, I decided to eliminate my reactive behavior to irritations, but at first none of my tricks worked. I placed philosophical and inspirational quotes on my iPhone wallpaper or wrote in my journal, but the proverbs always lost their effectiveness over time. Then, one day, I told one of my clients who blamed her husband for everything to take 100 percent responsibility for her part in their interactions. "This way," I said, "you .. | Timothy Ferris | ||
| ac3c839 | In every difficult moment ask yourself, "What is a hard choice and what is an easy choice?" and you will know instantly what is right." | Timothy Ferris | ||
| 6926333 | Over the last half of my life, I've read hundreds of poetry books. Whenever I read a poem that I loved or felt a deep connection to, I added it to a collection I titled "200 Antidepressant Poems." Now, whenever I feel overwhelmed or feel I did something wrong, I go to the meditation room, randomly open my manuscript, then read a poem loudly. Usually two poems are enough to make me feel better and restore love in my heart. Here are my 11 fav.. | Timothy Ferris | ||
| 8f7d6d9 | If I accept you as you are, I make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming I help you become that."--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" | Timothy Ferris | ||
| 9571337 | In Japanese, there is a term, "forest bathing," where you take a walk under the trees and the coolness, the smell, and the silence wash over you. I feel relaxed, cleansed, and clear-minded afterward." | Timothy Ferris | ||
| a6505ce | Everyone has their own journey. People who offer great advice understand that their goal is to help someone on their unique journey. People who offer bad advice are trying to relive their old glories. | Timothy Ferris | ||
| 6348e03 | When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do? Whenever I'm feeling like I need to prioritize what I'm doing or overthinking a particular situation that is making me anxious, I try to remember this great exchange in the film Bridge of Spies. Tom Hanks, who plays a lawyer, asks his client, who is being accused of being a spy, "Aren't you worried?" His answer: "Would it help?" I always think, "Would it help?" That is the pivotal ques.. | Timothy Ferris | ||
| b43af49 | It's really easy to say what you're not. It's hard to say what you are." In other words, you can spend all day undermining other people, and even if you're right, who cares?" | Timothy Ferris | ||
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Por regla general, las mujeres tienen menos de una decima parte (a menudo menos de una cuadragesima parte) de testosterona que los hombres. Esta receta bioquimica no resiste un crecimiento muscular rapido a menos que la mujer sea una excepcion; por consiguiente, en lo que queda de este libro te ruega que dejes de lado el temor a < |
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| 0da6767 | No debo tener miedo. El miedo mata la mente. El miedo es la muerte menor que acarrea la destruccion total. | Timothy Ferris | ||
| 3130b99 | Baade, born and raised in Germany, had lost his U. S. citizenship papers, and found himself classed an enemy alien. Barred from security clearance, he was left alone with the 100-inch telescope. As if in an astronomer's fantasy, he watched from Mt. Wilson as the lights of Los Angeles disappeared into wartime blackout. | Timothy Ferris | ||
| 409ab66 | Apoyados por las investigaciones llevadas a cabo en el ambito del diseno de juegos, los resultados de Jack Stack y Western Electric pueden resumirse en una simple ecuacion: medicion = motivacion. Ver progresos en forma de cifras cambiantes convierte lo repetitivo en algo fascinante y crea un bucle de retroalimentacion positivo. Vemos de nuevo como el acto de medir es a menudo mas importante que lo que se mide. Citando al estadistico George .. | Timothy Ferris | ||
| df9d675 | Unluckier still was Guillaume Le Gentil, whose experiences are wonderfully summarized by Timothy Ferris in Coming of Age in the Milky Way . Le Gentil set off from France a year ahead of time to observe the transit (of Venus) from India, but various setbacks left him still at sea on the day of the transit--just about the worst place to be since steady measurements were impossible on a pitching ship. | humor resilience | Bill Bryson | |
| ceb145c | No consideres un cambio en la dieta o un ejercicio algo que te exigira un compromiso de seis meses, y menos aun durante el resto de tu vida. Consideralo un periodo de prueba de una o dos semanas. | Timothy Ferris | ||
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dioxido de cloro, una de las sustancias quimicas empleadas para blanquear la harina (aunque luego se vuelva a tenir de marron, un truco habitual), se combina con las proteinas residuales de la mayoria de esos alimentos para formar el aloxano. Los investigadores utilizan el aloxano en las ratas de laboratorio para inducir la diabetes. Exacto: se emplea para provocar diabetes. Esto es una mala noticia si comes cualquier cosa blanca o <|
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| 7f4757d | Most men, however, do not consider such issues in explicit terms. They absorb their ideas--implicitly, eclectically, and with many contradictions--from the cultural atmosphere around them, building into their souls without identifying it the various ideological vibrations emanating from school and church and arts and media and mores. | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 254ccdb | The Nazi] death camps," notes a writer in The New York Times, "were conceived, built and often administered by Ph.D.'s." | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 48e2849 | The Social Democrats continued all the longtime traditions of their party and sought support in essence from only one segment of the electorate: the "proletariat," i.e., the urban workers. The party's goal, in the words of one resolution, was "to unite the entire strength of the proletariat in the struggle against the common enemy, capitalism and reaction."1 The purpose of the struggle, Social Democratic leaders told the workers, is to achi.. | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 9ec2f06 | Hannah Arendt, the best and most philosophically inclined of the commentators, is also, in regard to her ultimate conclusions, the worst, i.e., the most perversely wrong-headed. In a final warning, she singles out for special attack the attitude which she regards as a major source of the Nazis' evil and of their success: an unswerving commitment to logic. The Nazis, she says, and the masses attracted to them, were "too consistent" in pursui.. | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 61ea260 | All of these men and movements contributed the notes, the chords, or the screeches that fused into the Horst Wessel song. And they are merely some of the obvious voices in Germany from a chorus sustained across hundreds of years and gradually rising in volume. If the brutes finally rose from the gutters and stamped a swastika across the doctrines of the centuries; if, plucking the naked essence of those doctrines from the atmosphere, they b.. | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 9248e40 | The aspiring dictator may not be able to identify in philosophic terms the clash between reason and his particular schemes. But he, too, is aware of it. In some (usually unverbalized) form, he knows that he cannot demand unthinking obedience from men, or gain their consent to the permanent rule of brutality, until he has first persuaded his future subjects to ditch their brains and their independent, self-assertive judgment. He knows that h.. | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| da452e1 | Germany has been called "the land of poets and philosophers." But its education offered the country no protection against the Sergeant Molls in its ranks." | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 014229e | Social justice" in this view not only allows but demands the use of force against the non-sacrificial individual; it demands that others put a stop to his evil. Thus has moral fervor been joined to the rule of physical force, raising it from a criminal tactic to a governing principle of human relationships." | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 4c4a015 | The system which Hitler established--the social reality which so many Germans were so eager to embrace or so willing to endure--the politics which began in a theory and ended in Auschwitz--was: the "total state." The term, from which the adjective "totalitarian" derives, was coined by Hitler's mentor, Mussolini." | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 34a699b | Nazism in politics was a form of statism. In principle, it did not represent a new approach to government; it was a continuation of the political absolutism--the absolute monarchies, the oligarchies, the theocracies, the random tyrannies--which has characterized most of human history. | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 2ce13be | In degree, however, the total state does differ from its predecessors: it represents statism pressed to its limits, in theory and in practice, devouring the last remnants of the individual. | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 7518d29 | Providence," said Hitler to Rauschning, has ordained that I should be the greatest liberator of humanity. I am freeing men from the restraints of an intelligence that has taken charge; from the dirty and degrading self-mortifications of a chimera called conscience and morality, and from the demands of a freedom and personal independence which only a very few can bear.45" | Leonard Peikoff |