Brian Campbell Vickery (1918–2009) British information theorist
as Soviet writers would have it
Preface: second paragraph
Information Systems (1973)
Introduction, p. vii. ; quoted in The Feminist Crusades: Making Myths and Building Bureaucracies (c. 2007) Zepezauer ISBN 9781425972868
How Civilizations Fall
Brian Campbell Vickery (1918–2009) British information theorist
as Soviet writers would have it
Preface: second paragraph
Information Systems (1973)
Charles Lyell (1797–1875) British lawyer and geologist
Source: The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man (1863), Ch.21, p. 420-421
Context: None of the observations are more in point, as bearing on the doctrine of what Hooker terms 'creation by variation,' than the great extent to which the internal characters and properties of plants, or their physiological constitution are capable of being modified, while they exhibit externally no visible departure from the normal form.... When several of these internal or physiological modifications are accompanied by variation in size, habits of growth, colour of the flowers, and other external characters, and these are found to be constant in successive generations, botanists may well begin to differ in opinion as to whether they ought to regard them as distinct species or not.
Erich Fromm (1900–1980) German social psychologist and psychoanalyst
Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow (1946) primate of the Russian Orthodox Church
24 September 2015 http://www.pravmir.com/west-should-learn-from-russia-to-accept-muslim-refugees-patriarch-kirill/ at a meeting with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas at his residence in Peredelkino, Moscow Region.
James Rachels (1941–2003) American philosopher
Created from Animals (1990), p. 172
Roberto Mangabeira Unger (1947) Brazilian philosopher and politician
Source: Social Theoryː Its Situation and Its Task (1987), p. 7
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
1920s, The Future of an Illusion (1927)
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
1860s, Fourth of July Address to Congress (1861)