
Notice sur les Titres et Travaux scientifiques de Pierre Duhem rédigée par lui-même lors de sa candidature à l'Académie des sciences (mai 1913), The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory (1906)
Original: Ogni errore ha il suo valore. Insegnerà alla mente a non commetterlo più.
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Notice sur les Titres et Travaux scientifiques de Pierre Duhem rédigée par lui-même lors de sa candidature à l'Académie des sciences (mai 1913), The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory (1906)
Christopher Hitchens vs. William Dembski, 18/11/2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctuloBOYolE&t=14m12s
2010s, 2010
“Respect is the first value that every good parent should teach own son.”
Original: Il rispetto è il primo valore che ogni buon genitore dovrebbe insegnare al proprio figlio.
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“My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.”
Source: Peony in Love
“A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.”
“Every positive value has its price in negative terms… the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.”
"Value of Dissent" speech Nashville, Tennessee (21 March 1968)
The Necessary Angel (1951), Imagination as Value
Context: What the poet has in mind... is that poetic value is an intrinsic value. It is not the value of knowledge. It is not the value of faith. It is the value of imagination. The poet tries to exemplify it, in part as I have tried to exemplify it here, by identifying it with an imaginative activity that diffuses itself throughout our lives.