Fritjof Capra book The Tao of Physics
Source: The Tao of Physics (1975), Ch. 1, Modern Physics, p. 19.
Source: Against the Day (2006), p. 622
Fritjof Capra book The Tao of Physics
Source: The Tao of Physics (1975), Ch. 1, Modern Physics, p. 19.
Ronda Rousey (1987) American judoka, mixed martial artist, professional wrestler and actress
"Ronda Rousey: What I've Learned", in Esquire.com (26 December 2012) http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/interviews/a17607/ronda-rousey-mma-quotes-0113/
Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802) (1802–1871) Scottish publisher and writer
Source: Sanitary Economy (1850), p. 17
Context: Abstract perfection should always be the direction aimed at by human efforts, however imperfect they may be; and the success of sanitary legislation will be indicated by the nearness or the distance of its actual practice from this perfect idea.
Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union
Why I Am An Agnostic (1929)
Source: Why I Am An Agnostic and Other Essays
“Mortals might have been contemptible, true, but not evil entirely.”
Kage Baker book In the Garden of Iden
Source: In the Garden of Iden (1997), Chapter 5 (p. 45)
Context: No nation, creed, or race was any better or worse than another; all were flawed, all were equally doomed to suffering, mostly because they couldn’t see that they were all alike. Mortals might have been contemptible, true, but not evil entirely. They did enjoy killing one another and frequently came up with ingenious excuses for doing so on a large scale—religions, economic theories, ethnic pride—but we couldn’t condemn them for it, as it was in their moral natures and they were too stupid to know any better.
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
"Heidelberg Disputation: Thesis 7" (1518), http://bookofconcord.org/heidelberg.php#7
Louis Brandeis (1856–1941) American Supreme Court Justice
Albert Einstein, statement sent to the Boston journal The Jewish Advocate on 1931-10-19 on the occasion of Justice Brandeis' seventy-fifth birthday, quoted in Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, eds., Albert Einstein: The Human Side (Princeton University Press, 1981), ISBN 0-691-02368-9, p. 85.
Steve Stewart-Williams (1971)
Source: The Ape that Thought It Was a Peacock: Does Evolutionary Psychology Exaggerate Human Sex Differences? (2013), p. 151
Adolph Gottlieb (1903–1974) American artist
1950s, Conversations With Artists, 1957