Quote by Werner Karl Heisenberg on Nature and Mind
“The Same organizing forces that have shaped nature in all her forms are also responsible for the structure of our minds.”
Werner Karl Heisenberg
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Quote by Gore Vidal on Democracy and Militarised Republic
“We should stop going around babbling about how we’re the greatest democracy on earth, when we’re not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.”
Gore Vidal
Quote by Werner Karl Heisenberg on the Uncertainty Principle
“The more closely you look at one thing, the less closely can you see something else.”
Werner Karl Heisenberg
Albert Jay Nock Quote on State and Church
“It is interesting to observe that in the year 1935 the average individual’s incurious attitude towards the phenomenon of the State is precisely what his attitude was toward the phenomenon of the Church in the year, say, 1500. It does not appear to have occurred to the Church-citizen of that day, any more than it occurs to the State-citizen of the present, to ask what sort of institution it was that claimed his allegiance.”
Albert Jay Nock
Quote by Gore Vidal about the ruling class and contempt
“You know, I’ve been around the ruling class all my life, and I’ve been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.”
Gore Vidal
Quote by Gore Vidal about Democracy and Bribery
“Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.”
Gore Vidal
Quote by Werner Karl Heisenberg: Looking at something changes it
“Looking at something changes it.”
Werner Karl Heisenberg
Quote by Albert Jay Nock on Officeholders and Change of Power
“Driving jobholders out of office is like the old discredited policy of driving prostitutes out of town. Their places are immediately taken by others who are precisely like them.”
Albert Jay Nock
Albert Jay Nock Quote on Useless Knowledge and Public Opinion
“Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.”
Albert Jay Nock
Quote by Albert Jay Nock on Culture, Learning, and Forgetting
“Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.”
Albert Jay Nock