Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
Context: Voluntary assimilation, known as Indianization in the Americas, is one response that has occurred at other places and in other times when two cultures collided. An unusual manifestation of it is when the whole dominant culture takes up the ways of the conquered. That does not happen very often, but it did occur when the Hyksos conquered Egypt about 1700 B. C. and when the Romans conquered the Greeks in the second century B. C.
As quoted in Consolation of Mind (2004) by H. K. Suhas, p. 111
Source: Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope
Source: Eternal quest: life & times of Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (2002), p. 1904.
“Genius, when applied to human problems, can manifest itself in strange ways”
(Speaking about Edward Teller)
F*** You! Mr. President: Confessions of the Father of the Neutron Bomb (2006)
Context: He was all in favor of fighting an all-out thermonuclear war that might devastate a fair fraction of civilization, to settle an argument with the USSR, but was dead set against using discriminate nuclear weapons that could settle arguments on the battlefield without devastating everything in sight. Genius, when applied to human problems, can manifest itself in strange ways.
Source: The world, the flesh & the devil (1929) (1969), p. 68
