For a life devoted to accumulating wealth, which would have killed nobler instincts in any one of us, had evidently seemed to him quite normal and left him with every appetite of justice and of love of nation unimpaired. — Hilaire Belloc, The Jews What does the pursue of wealth accumulation does to us? Can […]
In order then that the social compact may not be an empty formula, it tacitly includes the undertaking, which alone can give force to the rest, that whoever refuses to obey the general will shall be compelled to do so by the whole body. This means nothing less than that he will be forced to […]
Osobnost v neděli blahořečeného papeže Jana Pavla I. vyvolává dodnes mnohé otázky. V uzavřenosti církve, jejíž část si dosud ráda pěstuje až jakýsi mystický nádech sektářské výjimečnosti, se o Albinu Lucianim mluví daleko víc v souvislosti s jeho krátkým pontifikátem a „záhadnou“ smrtí, než aby se reflektovalo jeho dílo jako biskupa Vittorio Veneto, jako benátského […]
A tiny clip of an Australasian snapper Pagrus auratus swimming above seaweeds in extraordinarily clear water.
Very dirty water at Goat Island … still a pleasant dive in a washing machine (constant swell which means a lot of movement underwater). With basically nobody else in the water I had all the snappers to myself and the eagle ray was not nervous at all.
Let’s help ourselves with the Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle: We can measure either the position or the momentum of a quantum particle. The more accurately we measure one, the less accurately we can measure the other and vice versa. The same can perhaps be applied to the predestination of God, who is not bound by time, […]