sábado, março 20, 2010
There, three
Chapter 10
"The realisation that, instead of giving in to our wishes, we can break free from them [...]
The Buddha called it the 'middle way', because it lay between useless self-torment and thoughtless pleasure-seeking".
Chapter 30
"This magic was arithmetic [...]
How a clock with a pendulum 981 millimeters long needs exactly one second per swing, and why this is so".
Chapter 36
"A worker who did nothing but pull a lever on a machine two thousand times a day hardly needed to know what the machine produced [...]
Which meant, in fact, said Marx, that there were no longer real occupations".
E.H. Gombrich in A little history of the world
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"The realisation that, instead of giving in to our wishes, we can break free from them [...]
The Buddha called it the 'middle way', because it lay between useless self-torment and thoughtless pleasure-seeking".
Chapter 30
"This magic was arithmetic [...]
How a clock with a pendulum 981 millimeters long needs exactly one second per swing, and why this is so".
Chapter 36
"A worker who did nothing but pull a lever on a machine two thousand times a day hardly needed to know what the machine produced [...]
Which meant, in fact, said Marx, that there were no longer real occupations".
E.H. Gombrich in A little history of the world
