Liber locorum communium

"In this domain, living organisms are unbeatable:  a human brain consumes about 25 watts.  By contrast, a computer possessing an equiva...

PLANCK:  ". . . The difficulty which organized religion finds in appealing to the people nowadays is that its appeal necessarily demand...

Iam noctis umbra linquitur, polum caligo deserit, typusque Christi, lucifer diem sopitum suscitat.      Stanza 2 of the anonymous 5th or 6th...

"The 2,000-year old Western tradition, that of Christianity, provides, whether one believes in it or not, an exceptionally rich mythos ...

     "The Western Church has, in my view, been active in undermining itself. It no longer has the confidence to stick to its values, but...

      "When we decide not to worship divinity, we do not stop worshipping:  we merely find something else less worthy to worship."...

     "If the right hemisphere delivers 'the Other' – experience of whatever it is that exists apart from ourselves – this is no...