by Pier Marton | Feb 17, 2010 | Antisemitism, Books, Sci/Nat, Shoah, Time, Travel
Nobel prize winner, Eric Kandel, cannot not remember. Is remembered to have said during his acceptance speech: “…certainly not an Austrian Nobel, it was a Jewish-American Nobel.” I just wanted to listen to Science Friday…...
by Pier Marton | Feb 14, 2010 | Books, Idées
Nous manquons de quoi nous exprimer. Les hommes ne peuvent s’entendre. La parole, si vite qu’elle soit, n’est pas à la vitesse de la pensée. – Qui je fus Toute une vie ne suffit pas pour désapprendre, ce que naïf, soumis, tu t’es laissé mettre dans la tête...
by Pier Marton | Feb 12, 2010 | Books
Trying to coexist with migraine headaches moves one’s words in specific directions: “I usually solve problems by letting them devour me”. “In the fight between you and the world, back the world”. “Some deny the existence of misery...
by Pier Marton | Feb 9, 2010 | Books
A classic text: Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn’t shake us awake like a blow to the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it can make us happy, as you put it? Good God,...
by Pier Marton | Feb 9, 2010 | Books
… “So when we say reality, we are really thinking of all this—in one drop—an average sample of a mixture of a million individual realities…” EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...
by Pier Marton | Jan 31, 2010 | Books, iPhone
To remind Apple who had that bookshelf first… EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...