Big Bang Hypothesis challenged? Eric J. Lerner in Focus
“The Big Bang Hypothesis – which states the universe has been expanding since it began 14 billion years ago in a hot and dense state – is contradicted by the new James Webb Space Telescope images”
Eric J. Lerner
Voltairine de Cleyre: Direct Action vs. Political Action
“What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in direct action only, never in political action. For the basis of all political action is coercion; even when the State does good things, it finally rests on a club, a gun, or a prison, for its power to carry them through.”
Voltairine de Cleyre
Anne Lamott Quote: Why Our Own Healing Is the Greatest Gift to Our Children
“The most profound thing we have to offer our children is our own healing.”
Anne Lamott
Georges Bernanos on Violence: Unveiling the Fatal Mysticism of Totalitarianism
“It is not the use of violence that seems to me condemnable, but its mysticism, the religion of violence in the service of the totalitarian state, in the service of the dictatorship of the general welfare, considered not as a means but as an end.”
Georges Bernanos
Milton Friedman Quote: Why Bureaucracy Could Even Cause a Sand Shortage
“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.”
Milton Friedman
“What Is Life?” – Quote by Umberto Eco
“What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?”
Umberto Eco
Quote on Creativity and Originality by Umberto Eco
“Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.”
Umberto Eco
Identity Loss Through Social Media – Umberto Eco
“All the blogs, Facebook, Twitter are made by people who want to show their own private affairs at the price of making fakes, to try to appear such as they are not, to construct another personality, which is a veritable loss of identity.”
Umberto Eco
Textbooks and Education Critique by Neil Postman
“Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but the trouble they inflict on the minds of students is a blight and a curse.”
Neil Postman
The Cosmological Principle Does Not Hold Up Against Observations – Bjørn Ekeberg & Louis Marmet
“As the physicist Sabine Hossenfelder recently pointed out, a key assumption like ‘the cosmological principle’ – that the universe is on average the same in all directions – does not hold up well against observations.”
Bjørn Ekeberg & Louis Marmet