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Les grands philosophes nous ennuient profondément. D’honnêtes gens les soupçonne d’être des parasites nourrissant d’autres parasites. Les philosophes, sont murés dans un monologue autiste, ayant abandonné femmes et enfant pour se réfugier dans une solitude coupable où ils écrivent des livres sur d’autres livres que seuls les rats prendront la peine de dévorer, correspondant ainsi [...]

Polkinghorne holds the belief that unless some things last forever, everything is futile, a "meaningless empire of accident." This would wipe the smile off the face of many scientists. For science is not good about "forever." It paints a different picture of the world in which we find ourselves. Science teaches that the cosmos is [...]

Most problems — the ones Barack Obama is sure to focus on like health care reform and economic anxiety — are the product of complex conditions. They require trade-offs and policy expertise. They are not solvable through the mere assertion of sterling character.(David Brooks, op ed piece, the NYTimes, 9/1/2008)

Certainly some ultimate educational values seem forever to be eluding the Americans. At great effort and expense they send an extraordinary proportion of their young to colleges and universities; but their young, when they get there, do not seem to care even to read.(Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Richard Hofstadter, 1962, p. 301)

Long  ago, there were people who believed the Earth was hollow—a thin outer shell and a void in the center. There are still people who believe in this void, except they say creatures from outer space live there. Others have different fears. in the 1960s, the Congress of the United States was considering legislation to [...]