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Isaac Newton | so great an absurdity that

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“[…]that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.” Isaac Newton (In einem Brief an Dr. Bentley vom 25. Februar 1692) “[…] dass ein entfernter Körper auf einen anderen durch ein Vakuum ohne die Zwischenschaltung von etwas anderem…

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Konrad Lorenz | to throw your favorite hypothesis overboard every day

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“We have to acknowledge that most of us love their hypotheses, and, as I once said, it is a painful exercise, but one that keeps us young and healthy like morning gymnastics, to throw your favorite hypothesis overboard every day.” Konrad Lorenz “Die meisten von uns – dessen müssen wir uns bewusst sein – lieben ihre Hypothesen, und es ist, wie ich einmal sagte, eine zwar schmerzhafte, aber jung und gesund erhaltende Turnübung, täglich, gewissermaßen als Frühsport, seine Lieblingshypothese über Bord zu werfen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Ignatius von Loyola | those who do not love them at least fear them

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“Princes and persons of distinction everywhere must, by all means be so managed that we may have their ear, and that will easily secure their hearts: by which way of proceeding, all persons will become our creatures, and no one will dare to give the Society the least disquiet or opposition . . . Finally, the Society must endeavor to effect this at least, that having gotten the favor and authority of princes, those who do not love them at least fear them.” Ignatius von Loyola | (1491_1556, founder of…

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Haris Silajdžić | if you kill a quarter-of-a-million people, you’re invited to a peace conference

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“If you kill one person, you’re prosecuted. If you kill ten people, you’re famous; if you kill a quarter-of-a-million people, you’re invited to a peace conference.” Haris Silajdžić | ist ein bosnischer Politiker und Akademiker “Wenn Sie einen Menschen töten, werden Sie strafrechtlich verfolgt. Wenn Sie zehn Menschen töten, sind Sie berühmt; wenn Sie eine Viertelmillion Menschen töten, werden Sie zu einer Friedenskonferenz eingeladen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Megan Fox | we do consume each other’s blood on occasion for ritual purposes only

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“It’s just a few drops. But yes, we do consume each other’s blood on occasion for ritual purposes only. It is used for a reason and it is controlled where its like ‘let’s shed a few drops of blood and drink it. He’s much more haphazard and hectic and chaotic, where he’s willing to just cut his chest open with broken glass and be like ‘Take my soul. Let me bleed on you’. It doesn’t not happen, let me tell you, maybe not exactly like that, but a version of…

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Marvin Simkin | Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch

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“Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote.” Marvin Simkin “Demokratie ist nicht Freiheit. Demokratie sind zwei Wölfe und ein Lamm, die darüber abstimmen, was sie zu Mittag essen. Freiheit kommt von der Anerkennung bestimmter Rechte, die nicht genommen werden dürfen, nicht einmal durch eine 99 %-ige Abstimmung.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Howard Zinn | Our problem is civil obedience

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“As soon as you say the topic is civil disobedience, you are saying our problem is civil disobedience. That is not our problem…. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is the numbers of people all over the world who have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. And our problem is that scene in All Quiet on the Western Front where the schoolboys march off dutifully in a line to war. Our problem…

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Richard Feynman | iintellectual tyranny in the name of science

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“Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers in the preceding generation (…) When someone says, “Science teaches such and such,” he is using the word incorrectly. Science doesn’t teach anything; experience teaches it. If they say to you, “Science has shown such and such,” you might ask, “How does science show it? How did the scientists find out? How? What? Where?” It should not be “science has shown” but “this experiment, this effect, has…

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Dr. John Coleman | A One World Government […] in the form of a feudal system as it was in the Middle Ages.

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“A One World Government and one-unit monetary system under permanent non-elected hereditary oligarchists who self-select from among their numbers in the form of a feudal system as it was in the Middle Ages. In this One World entity, population will be limited by restrictions on the number of children per family, diseases, wars, famines, until 1 billion people who are useful to the ruling class, in areas which will be strictly and clearly defined, remain as the total world population. There will be no middle class, only rulers and servants….

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Robbie Williams | We’re in a post-truth world

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“We’re in a post-truth world where you can’t believe the media, you can’t believe Big Pharma, you can’t believe politicians, you can’t believe what you’re eating, you can’t believe yourself. Since we’ve existed, (if) there is a time where this whole empire could fall, it’s now. Of course these things are going to arise because we can’t trust anybody or anything. And I personally just believe and invest in my wife and my kids and my family. And yeah, I believe in them,” Robbie Williams “Wir leben in einer postfaktischen…

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Mark Passio | The more moral a population is, the freer it becomes

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“The more moral a population is, the freer it becomes. The more immoral a population is, the deeper into bondage and slavery it goes. Another way of saying this is to say that the presence of truth and morality in the lives of the people of any given society is always inversely proportional to the presence of tyranny and slavery in that society. The more truth and morality there is, the less tyranny and slavery there is. The less truth and morality there is, the more tyranny and slavery there…

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Bill Maher | If kids knew what they wanted to be at age eight

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“If kids knew what they wanted to be at age eight, the world would be filled with cowboys and princesses. I wanted to be a pirate. Thank God nobody took me seriously and scheduled me for eye removal and peg leg surgery.” Bill Maher “Wenn Kinder mit 8 Jahren wüssten, was sie werden wollen, wäre die Welt voller Cowboys und Prinzess innen. Ich wollte ein Pirat sein. Gott sei Dank hat das niemand ernst genommen und mich operiert, um ein Auge zu entfernen und ein Holzbein einzusetzen” Nützliche und hilfreiche…

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Konrad Lorenz | To the extent that handicrafts are wiped out by the competition of industry

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“To the extent that handicrafts are wiped out by the competition of industry, and to the extent that the smaller entrepreneur, including the farmer, becomes unable to exist, we are all quite simply forced to submit in our way of life to the wishes of the large producers, to eat the food and put on the clothes they think good for us, and what is worst of all, by virtue of the conditioning bestowed upon us, we do not even realize that they are doing so.” Konrad Lorenz “In dem…

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Henry Louis Mencken | And what is a good citizen?

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“And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.” Henry Louis Mencken | Henry Louis Mencken, usually known as HL Mencken in American, was an American writer and journalist, literary critic, columnist,…

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Peter Hübner | It’s an industrial arrangement based on the idea of mass filling

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“I am always irritated by the fact that they are not really schools at all. We don’t see places for living and learning, but barracks. Along long corridors, one room stands at attention next to the other. All the classrooms have the same shape. The children are crammed in, all facing the blackboard. The teacher writes, the children copy. It’s an industrial arrangement based on the idea of mass filling.” Peter Hübner | Architect “Mich irritiert stets, dass sie in Wahrheit gar keine Schulen sind. Wir sehen keine Orte für…

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Prof. Steven Weinberg | The International Space Station is an orbital turkey

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“The International Space Station is an orbital turkey….No important science has come out of it. I could almost say no science has come out of it. And I would go beyond that and say that the whole manned spaceflight program, which is so enormously expensive, has produced nothing of scientific value.” Prof. Steven Weinberg, Nobel Price for physics “Die Internationale Raumstation ist ein orbitaler Schrotthaufen….Sie hat keine wichtigen wissenschaftlichen Ergebnisse hervorgebracht. Ich könnte fast sagen, dass keine Wissenschaft aus ihr hervorgegangen ist. Und ich würde sogar noch weiter gehen und…

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Marshall McLuhan | All media work us over completely

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“[…] All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the message. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.[…] All media are extensions of some human faculty — psychic or physical. […] Media, by altering the environment, evoke in us unique ratios of sense perceptions. The extension of any one sense alters…

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Papst Pius XII | Big Bang – Creation – Science

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“In fact, it seems that present-day science, with one sweeping step back across millions of centuries, has succeeded in bearing witness to that primordial ‘Fiat lux’ Let there be light uttered at the moment when, along with matter, there burst forth from nothing a sea of light and radiation, while the particles of the chemical elements split and formed into millions of galaxies … Hence, creation took place in time, therefore, there is a Creator, God exists. Although it is neither explicit nor complete, this is the reply we were…

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Prof. Wolfgang Berger | I acquired all my academic titles by believing in a false doctrine

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“I acquired all my academic titles by believing in a false doctrine. A studied economist understands less about macroeconomics than a cow does about flying, because he first has to dig himself out of a swamp of preconceived opinions and errors in thinking in order to even reach the surface, or to get back to where he was before he let himself be committed to the stupification asylum.” Professor Dr. Dr. Wolfgang Berger „Meine ganzen akademischen Titel habe ich mit dem Glauben an eine Irrlehre erworben. Ein studierter Volkswirtschaftler versteht…

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Thomas Sowell | Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant

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“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. Even countries that were once more prosperous than their neighbors have found themselves much poorer than their neighbors after just one generation of socialistic policies.” Thomas Sowell “Der Sozialismus im Allgemeinen hat eine so eklatante Versagensbilanz, dass nur ein Intellektueller sie ignorieren oder umgehen kann. Selbst Länder, die einst wohlhabender waren als ihre Nachbarn, sind nach nur einer Generation sozialistischer Politik viel ärmer als ihre Nachbarn.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Milan Kundera | The first step in liquidating a people

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“The first step in liquidating a people, is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.” Milan Kundera “Der erste Schritt zur Eliminierung von Menschen, besteht darin, ihr Gedächtnis zu löschen. Zerstören Sie ihre Bücher, ihre Kultur, ihre Geschichte. Dann bitten Sie jemanden, neue Bücher zu schreiben, eine neue Kultur…

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Melyssa Ford | Satanic Contracts

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“if your if your ultimate goal is to be famous then you’re gonna do a lot to do to get there like sign your name and blood in a contract with the devil-that’s just the truth” Melyssa Ford | (Satanic Contracts) “Wenn es dein ultimatives Ziel ist, berühmt zu werden, dann wirst du eine Menge tun, um dorthin zu gelangen, wie deinen Namen und dein Blut in einem Vertrag mit dem Teufel zu unterschreiben – das ist einfach die Wahrheit” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Neil deGrasse Tyson | let the dark lord Satan show you the way

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“Some have asked me where scientists turn after science has yielded no clear solution. I tell these people what my grandfather Charles Darwin told me: roll back your eyes, contort your body, and let the dark lord Satan show you the way” Neil deGrasse Tyson (attributed) “Manche haben mich gefragt, wohin sich Wissenschaftler wenden, wenn die Wissenschaft keine klare Lösung gefunden hat. Ich sage diesen Leuten, was mein Großvater Charles Darwin mir gesagt hat: Rollt eure Augen zurück, verdreht euren Körper und lasst euch vom dunklen Lord Satan alles zeigen”…

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Michio Kaku | the largest mismatch between theory and experiment

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“Usually in science, if we’re off by a factor of 2 or a factor of 10, we call that horrible. We say, something’s wrong with the theory. We’re off by a factor of 10! However, in cosmology, we’re off by a factor of 10 to the 120th. That is one with 100 and 20 zeroes after it. This is the largest mismatch between theory and experiment in the history of science.” Michio Kaku “Wenn wir in der Wissenschaft um einen Faktor 2 oder 10 daneben liegen, nennen wir das normalerweise…

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Michio Kaku | Why do we think that?

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“Why do we think that? Because we have a theory called string theory, it is fantastic it is incredible. It has astounded the world of mathematics, and physics and now you can’t move in the physics world without bumping into somebody who wants to talk about the 10th Dimension the 11th Dimension the Multiverse hyperspace time travel. All the things that were once considered science fiction are now centerpiece in our understanding of the nature of everything.” Dr. Michio Kaku | is one of the best known physicists in the…

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Carl Sagan | The bamboozle has captured us

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“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” Carl Sagan “Eine der traurigsten Lehren der Geschichte ist diese: Wenn wir lange genug beschwindelt wurden, neigen wir dazu, jeden Beweis des Schwindels abzulehnen. Wir…

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David Wardlaw Scott | Children are taught in their geography books, when too young to apprehend aright the meaning of such things

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“Children are taught in their geography books, when too young to apprehend aright the meaning of such things, that the world is a great globe revolving around the Sun, and the story is repeated continuously, year by year, till they reach maturity, at which time they generally become so absorbed in other matters as to be indifferent as to whether the teaching be true or not, and, as they hear of nobody contradicting it, they presume that it must be the correct thing, if not to believe at least to…