“Living on the razor’s edge”
This sounds very much like existentialism, but it actually mirrors normal life: very much alive, we wind ourselves through constantly impending disasters by a hair’s breadth.
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“Oh, that I had never acted! How many hopes I’d now be richer by!”
A romantic statement that, however, addresses something we probably all know: you should, and you desire to, take action – and then action becomes frustration because it is helpless, unsuccessful or too careless. And yet, so many hopes and desires … Weiterlesen
We must believe in ourselves or no one else will.
On the one hand it sounds self-confident, but on the other hand it demonstrates how difficult it is for women to receive obvious recognition for excellent performance. Especially when this is said by a scientist who was awarded the Nobel … Weiterlesen
“Real and empirically true is only a life as a novel”
This is not all that pessimistic a perspective for one’s own life, but it is simultaneously a critique of all that naïve chatter that claims to be realistic and true.
My (algebraic) methods are really methods of working and thinking; this is why they have crept in everywhere anonymously.
Reading this sentence, it is not clear whether Emmy Noether resigned herself to this statement, or whether she made it proudly, or simply pragmatically (as an insight into ignorant reality). But beyond that: How do we interpret this remark, regardless … Weiterlesen
“Be realistic, demand the impossible!”
Sounds paradoxical and also plays with this paradox, but is indeed very pragmatic and insightful: in the face of the total abstraction of the real, or of that we think is real, only that which, within the existing, appears to … Weiterlesen
Life need not be easy, provided it is not empty.
Simple usually sounds so simple, but a simple life can be more complicated and unsatisfying than a stressful, perhaps even exhausting, but fulfilling life. An empty life, on the other hand, is boring at best, but more likely it is … Weiterlesen
Learning by dying
Two young adults are standing in a tram and one says to the other: “And then I was dead.” Obviously, he lacked the experience to realise that, as a corpse, he would not be able to say that.
However, such … Weiterlesen
There is no question that plants have a certain kind of feelings. But just because they are standing somewhere, someone walking down the street thinks they are plastic (malleable) and not alive.
Even before not only science, but almost the entire world, knows that plants are more than just natural beauty and human food, the Nobel Prize-winning biologist granted them something like emotions. We cannot understand why people consider animal welfare to … Weiterlesen