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and have discovered a new type of nuclear reaction, the splitting into two smaller nuclei of the nuclei of uranium and thorium under neutron bombardment. Thus they demonstrated the production of nuclei of barium, lanthanum, strontium, yttrium, and, m...

Lise Meitner

One of the recent arguments from design, that based on the so-called fine-tuning life of some fundamental physical constants, founders on the following objections: an extremely small prior probability merited by the God of theism in light – if that...

Objecting to God

Write in pictures. With your words, let the reader see not letters, but images. Be specific about every detail, but don't describe it--make it happen on the page, if you were writing fiction, or make it happen over again, if you were writing about hi...

Write Here Write Now: Standing at Attention Before My Imaginary Style Dictator

As Luxenberg's work has only recently been published we must await its scholarly assessment before we can pass any judgements. But if his analysis is correct then suicide bombers, or rather prospective martyrs, would do well to abandon their culture ...

Ibn Warraq

He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his friends, he didn't really mind--or not much, anyway. Whereas if anyone insulted a novel, a story, a poem that he loved, someth...

Julian Barnes

During the Government’s recent overhaul of GCSEs, I was asked to join a consultative group advising on the English Literature syllabus. It quickly became clear that the minister wanted to prescribe two Shakespeare plays for every 16-year-old in the...

Jonathan Bate

We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence—crowned as it has been by the recent creation of the earth's greatest wonder, MAN, can be set aside, or its seemingly necessary result withhe...

George Poulett Scrope

[Emma notices Bumstead's accordian] Emma Murdoch: It's beautiful. Inspector Frank Bumstead: It was a gift from my mother. She died recently. I keep it with me to remind me of her. Emma Murdoch: I'm sorry. Inspector Frank Bumstead: It's a funny thing,...

Dark City

Lord Voldemort: To those of you who do not know: we are joined tonight by Ms. Charity Burbage, who until recently taught at Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft And Wizardry. Her speciality was Muggle Studies. It is Ms. Burbage's belief that Muggles are not...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Karen Clarke: Has a decision already been made in principle to advocate invasion? Linton Barwick: I would refer you to the recent comments of our colleague from the UK, mister Simon Foster, in that regard. Karen Clarke: Yes, I think that mister Foste...

In the Loop

Klump: And, if my current state of much-justified petulance permits me to press the point, you are likeways demonstratably bereft of a working understanding of the perimeters of our beforementioned mission at hand. Klump: Relevant to said mission is ...

Sin City

morality means giving common concerns or the wellbeing of others as much weight as one’s own self-interest. Moral behaviour in this sense can be found in any society, because it is the glue that sticks individuals together and so makes society poss...

Love

Since the future's so iffy, I'll turn my attention to the past.

The City of Devi

As with the future, it is not all at once but grain by grain that one savours the past.

The Captive & The Fugitive

I felt good that, although there was no future, there would always be a past.

A Crowbar in the Buddhist Garden

Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

Choke

The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.

Doomed

The past only has power over you when it's forgotten... ignored or repressed.

Desert Sons

He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.

Delta of Venus

Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future.

A Discovery of Witches

You cannot win your future if you cannot forgive your past

Discovering Yourself