„It was a great achievement of the early chemists — with the crude experimental techniques available also with the ever-astonishing power of human reason (as potent then as now) — to discover this reduction of the world to its components, the chemical elements. Such reduction does not destroy its charm but adds understanding to sensation, and this understanding only deepens our delight.“
Fuente: Periodic Kingdom (1995), p. 147-148
Peter Atkins4
químico británico 1940Citas similares
— Luther Burbank American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in agricultural science 1849 - 1926
How Plants are Trained to Work for Man (1921) Vol. 5 Gardening
— Mortimer J. Adler American philosopher and educator 1902 - 2001
Fuente: How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information
— Ludwig von Bertalanffy austrian biologist and philosopher 1901 - 1972
Fuente: General System Theory (1968), p. xix
— Max Tegmark, libro Our Mathematical Universe
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality (2014)
— David Gemmell, libro Quest for Lost Heroes
Fuente: Drenai series, Quest for Lost Heroes, Ch. 10
— Cyrus H. Gordon American linguist 1908 - 2001
Fuente: The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965 [1962]), Ch.VIII Further Observations on the Bible
Contexto: If archeology had yielded only the Epic of Kret, we would have enough to bridge the gap between the Iliad and Genesis. But... our new sources are so rich that we have only begun... The years ahead bid fair to be the most fruitful in the annals of Classical and Biblical scholarship. Our debt to the Bible and Classics is so great that this type of research will deepen our understanding of our culture and of ourselves.
— Vladimir Lenin Russian politician, led the October Revolution 1870 - 1924
Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (1908)
— George Holmes Howison American philosopher 1834 - 1916
Fuente: The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905), The Right Relation of Reason to Religion, p.224-5
— Edgar Degas French artist 1834 - 1917
Quoted in Degas' letter to Daniel Halévy, 31 Jan 1892, from Degas Letters, ed. Marcel Guerin, trans. Marguerite Kay (1947)
1876 - 1895
— C.G. Jung, libro Psychological Types
Variant translation: We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Conclusion, p. 628
Psychological Types, or, The Psychology of Individuation (1921)
— Thomas Jefferson 3rd President of the United States of America 1743 - 1826
Letter to John Taylor (26 November 1798), shortened in The Money Masters to "I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution … taking from the federal government their power of borrowing".
Posthumous publications, On financial matters
— David Fleming British activist 1940 - 2010
Lean Logic, (2016), p. 194, entry on Holism http://www.flemingpolicycentre.org.uk/lean-logic-surviving-the-future/
— Cy Twombly American painter 1928 - 2011
a written art note by Twombly on a painting he created in 1957
Quote of Twombly in 'Writings', Flash Art International, Laura Cherubini, October 2008 (translation from Italian: Beatrice Barbareschi)
1950 - 1960
— Boris Johnson British politician, historian and journalist 1964
Fuente: Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt pledge to safeguard union https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-48817848 BBC News (30 June 2019)
— Joseph Dietzgen german philosopher 1828 - 1888
Letter 1
Letters on Logic: Especially Democratic-Proletarian Logic (1906)
