Their Compleat Discoveries and Performances

September 16th, 2006 § 1

The Royal Society has just made all journals available free of charge back to 1665. This is from the introduction to the first issue of Philosophical Transactions, published in 1666.

Quote of the Day

September 7th, 2006 § 0

True, I was almost omniscient (yet not entirely) when I was twenty years old, but, as you know, people grow stupid when they grow older. I was much less omniscient when I was twenty-eight, and still less now.

Leszek Kolakowski, “My Correct Views on Everything: A Rejoinder to E. P. Thompson,” originally published in The Socialist Register, 1974, reprinted in his My Correct Views on Everything, Zbigniew Janowski (Ed), St. Augustine’s, 2004, p. 19. Via Tony Judt, “Goodbye to All That?“, in The New York Review of Books, Volume 53, Number 14, 21 September 2006.

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