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어머님께는 자식의 불효와 기대에 어긋난 점에 대해 죄송하다는 말씀을 전해주십시오.
나는 바보였습니다. 한국에서 태어났다면 이런 범죄를 저지르지 않았을 것입니다. 박(정희) 대통령께 진정으로 미안하다는 말을 전해주시기 바랍니다. 국민들에게도 미안하다는 말을 전해주십시오. 육(영수) 여사와 죽은 여학생의 명복을 저승에 가서도 빌겠습니다. 조총련에 속아서 이러한 과오를 범한 나는 바보였으므로 사형을 당해도 당연합니다.
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오늘밤 온 도시는 시채처리장으로 가득하고, 모든 변기들에서는 물이 넘쳐나고 있다. 우리가 똥 오물들을 거쳐 지나갈 때마다 벽 사이로 삐져나온 쇼핑몰들이 보인다. 내가 바로 신경 쓰지 않는 이유는 바로 그것이다.
예술은 자연의 산물이다. 그렇다, 그녀의 사랑스러운 아이는, 우리가 어머니에게서 얼굴을 그려냇고, 그녀의 외관과 자세에서 만들어 내었다.
두 남자는 같은 감옥에서 창살밖을 바라 보았다. 한명은 진흙을 보았고 다른 한명은 별들을 보았다.
내 생각에 우리 세대의 목적은 모든 상투적인 문구들을 없에버리는 일이다.
나는 Beck으로 알려진 예술가이다. 나는 아주 멋진 가발을 가지고 있다. 내가 가발을 썻을때, 진정한 천재가 나타난다. 나는 천재가 되기에는 충분한 머리털을 지니고 있지 않다. 내 생각에 당신은 어디든지 자랄 수 있는 머리카락을 가지고 잇어야 한다고 생각한다.
그 어떤 누구도 예술가와는 가능한한 거래를 하지 말아야 한다.
그 길에 아무런 어려움도, 아무런 가시도 없었던가, 그렇다면 그는 처음의 그 상태로 남아있었을 것이고, 문명과 정신적문화에도 아무런 진전이 없었을 것이다.
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Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
When you make the finding yourself – even if you’re the last person on Earth to see the light – you’ll never forget it.
We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in ou
We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs.
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accu
There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right; they’re the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scr
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English (up to fifty words used in correct context) no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.
I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.