— John Zerzan American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author 1943
Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization (2002)
„Of course, we had no idea whatever that this would one day be applied to make hydrogen bombs. Our curiosity was just curiosity about the structure of the nucleus of the atom, and the discovery of these reactions was purely, as the Americans would put it, coincidental.“
On his research on atomic nuclei with Ernest Rutherford, p. 24
Portraits in Science interviews (1994)
Kontext: We were able to discover two new kinds of atomic species, one was hydrogen of mass 3, unknown until that time, and the other helium of mass 3, also unknown. … We were able to show that heavy hydrogen nuclei, that is to say the cores of heavy hydrogen atoms, could be made to react with one another to produce a good deal of energy and new kinds of atom. …Of course, we had no idea whatever that this would one day be applied to make hydrogen bombs. Our curiosity was just curiosity about the structure of the nucleus of the atom, and the discovery of these reactions was purely, as the Americans would put it, coincidental.
Übernommen aus Wikiquote. Letzte Aktualisierung 3. Juni 2021. Geschichte
Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant
australischer Physiker und Politiker 1901 - 2000Ähnliche Zitate
— Miguel de Unamuno 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher 1864 - 1936
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), X : Religion, the Mythology of the Beyond and the Apocatastasis
— Katherine Maher chief executive officer and executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation 1983
Wikimedia CEO on facts, hoaxes and the promise of Wikipedians by Luke Ottenhof, Canada's National Observer https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/03/19/news/wikimedia-ceo-facts-wiki-hoaxes-and-promise-wikipedians, (19 March 2021)
2021
— Hugo Chávez 48th President of Venezuela 1954 - 2013
Responding to President George W. Bush remarks on Iran, November 21, 2007 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-chavez-bush/chavez-says-bush-belongs-in-asylum-for-ww3-comment-idUSL2062324220071120
2007
— Leó Szilárd Physicist and biologist 1898 - 1964
"President Truman Did Not Understand" http://www.peak.org/~danneng/decision/usnews.html in U.S. News & World Report (15 August 1960)
Variant: If the Germans had dropped atomic bombs on cities instead of us, we would have defined the dropping of atomic bombs on cities as a war crime, and we would have sentenced the Germans who were guilty of this crime to death at Nuremberg and hanged them.
As quoted in The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb (1996) by Dennis Wainstock, p. 122
Kontext: Suppose Germany had developed two bombs before we had any bombs. And suppose Germany had dropped one bomb, say, on Rochester and the other on Buffalo, and then having run out of bombs she would have lost the war. Can anyone doubt that we would then have defined the dropping of atomic bombs on cities as a war crime, and that we would have sentenced the Germans who were guilty of this crime to death at Nuremberg and hanged them?
But, again, don't misunderstand me. The only conclusion we can draw is that governments acting in a crisis are guided by questions of expediency, and moral considerations are given very little weight, and that America is no different from any other nation in this respect.
„A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity.“
— Napoleon I of France French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French 1769 - 1821
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955
Einstein discussing the letter he sent Roosevelt raising the possibility of atomic weapons. from "Atom: Einstein, the Man Who Started It All," Newsweek Magazine (10 March 1947).
1940s
— Yakov Frenkel Russian physicist 1894 - 1952
Quoted in The world of Andrei Sakharov: a Russian physicist's path to freedom (2005) By Gennadiĭ Efimovich Gorelik, Antonina W. Bouis, p. 134.
— Gabriel García Márquez, buch Die Liebe in den Zeiten der Cholera
Quelle: Love in the Time of Cholera
— Miguel de Unamuno, buch The Tragic Sense of Life
to call this load that well nigh crushes our heart pure curiosity!
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), X : Religion, the Mythology of the Beyond and the Apocatastasis
— Henri Cartier-Bresson French photographer 1908 - 2004
Quelle: Henri Cartier-Bresson: Interviews and Conversations, 1951-1998, Photographing Is Nothing, Looking Is Everything! Interview with Philippe Boegner (1989), p. 115
„Damned meddlers. It’s hard to know when their curiosity is official and when it’s just curiosity.“
— Jack Vance, buch The Five Gold Bands
Quelle: The Five Gold Bands (1950), Chapter 6 (p. 65)
„She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.“
— Henry James, buch The Portrait of a Lady
Quelle: The Portrait of a Lady
— Nick Drake (poet) British writer 1961
ibid
The Rahotep series, Book 2: Tutankhamun
„People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.“
— Leo Rosten American writer 1908 - 1997
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
Introduction
1830s, Nature http://www.emersoncentral.com/nature.htm (1836)
— Jackson Pollock American artist 1912 - 1956
As quoted in Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics, ed. Clifford Ross, Abrahams Publishers, New York, 1990, p. 138
1940's, Art and Architecture (1944)
— Andy Goldsworthy British sculptor and photographer 1956
Interview with Conrad Bodman, curator at the Barbican Arts Centre (2001)
Kontext: Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work. Sometimes it's difficult to say if something has worked or not. Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.
