Afterword, p.446
The Limits To Capital (2006 VERSO Edition)
Chris Cornell (1964–2017) American singer-songwriter, musician
On what led him to check himself into rehab in 2002, quoted in ** What Would CHRIS CORNELL Tell Himself At 18? 'Don't Drink', Blabbermouth, 4 November 2011 http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/what-would-chris-cornell-tell-himself-at-18-don-t-drink/, <br class="br">Soundgarden Era
“Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.”
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician
Murray Gell-Mann (1929–2019) American physicist
Source: The Quark and the Jaguar (1994), Ch. 12 : Quantum Mechanics and Flapdoodle, pp. 172-173 see EPR paradox.
Context: The false report that measuring one of the photons immediately affects the other leads to all sorts of unfortunate conclusions.... the alleged effect... would violate the requirement of relativity theory that no signal... can travel faster than the speed of light. If it were to do so, it would appear to observers in some states of motion that the signal were traveling backward in time.
“Have that sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal.”
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
Vedânta philosophy : Lectures by the Swâmi Vivekânanda on Râja Yoga (1899), Ch. VI : Pratyâhâra and Dhâraṇâm
Context: To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. “I will drink the ocean”, says the persevering soul; “at my will mountains will crumble up”. Have that sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal.
Peter L. Berger (1929–2017) Austrian-born American sociologist
Preface
Invitation to Sociology (1963)
Thomas Paine book The Age of Reason
Source: 1790s, The Age of Reason, Part II (1795), Chapter III: Conclusion.
Context: The study of theology as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and admits of no conclusion. Not any thing can be studied as a science without our being in possession of the principles upon which it is founded; and as this is not the case with Christian theology, it is therefore the study of nothing.
“Fiction is never admitted where truth may work.”
Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet (1554–1625) English politician
Wright v. Gerrard (1617), Lord Hobart's Rep. 311.
