No matter how big you are, details count!
The darkness, of which the historians complain, is essentially the darkness of their own ignorance.
The main, as well as the least obvious, achievement of the Middle Ages was the creation of the experimental spirit and this was primarily due to the Muslims down to the 12th century.
The rationalism of the creative minds was tempered by abundant fantasies, and the supreme beauty of the monuments was probably spoiled by the circumambient vanities and ugliness; in a few cases the Greeks came as close to perfection as it was possible to do, yet they were human and imperfect.
I am obliged to deal with hundreds of men and to make them live without killing the reader.
science is the most revolutionary force in the world.
Hellenic science is a victory of rationalism, which appears greater, not smaller, when one is made to realize that it had been won in spite of the irrational beliefs of the Greek people; all in all, it was a triumph of reason in the face of unreason. Some knowledge of Greek superstitions is needed not only for a proper appreciation of that triumph but also for the justification of occasional failures, such as the many Platonic aberrations.
To tell the truth is revolutionary.
Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions.
If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization. . . go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city.
Marketing is neither good nor evil.