“Instead of speeding up growth, colonial activities such as mining and cash-crop farming speeded up the decay of “traditional” African life. In many parts of the continent, vital aspects of culture were adversely affected, nothing better was substituted, and only a lifeless shell was left.”

Interview http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1988/steinberger-interview.html with the 1988 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Jack Steinberger, at the 58th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, July 2008. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org http://nobelprize.org/.

Source: The Demigod Diaries

Verk, edited by Kletzkin, xi. 277f.

The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (1999)

Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "The Land Ethic", p. 223-224.

"Base Details"
The Counter-Attack and Other Poems (1918)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 206.

On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. The idea of German reunification, often discussed but considered unrealistic, once again became a subject of heated debate. Reunification now appeared inevitable, but scarcely anyone ventured to prophesy how soon it would come. German chancellor Helmut Kohl remarked those words when was accused of pushing unification plans too fast.
Awake! magazine, 12 - 22 - 1991; in its article The Dream of European Unity.

This is Your Brain on Music (2006)