barrow.
V. S. Naipaul LITERATURE, 2001
628. Almost all publishers belong to the ruling technocracies and therefore worship the dubious social sciences, scorn the classics, and mistrust poetry, considering it a fruidess activity or an archaic pastime.
Octavio Paz LITERATURE, 1990
629. Best-sellers are not works of literature, they are merchandise.
Octavio Paz LITERATURE, 1990
THE MEDIA
630. As long as I don't read the newspapers, I feel fine.
Otto Hahn CHEMISTRY, 1944
631. Turn off the television. Don't read the newspaper. It's all full of what went wrong yesterday.
Betty Williams PEACE, 1976
632. No poem can be the true image of our world. The true, the appalling image of our world is the newspaper.
Elias Canetti LITERATURE, 1981
633. Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
George Bernard Shaw LITERATURE, 1925
634. As journalists have occasionally said, What is there that will happen next that you can't even imagine?
Paul Lauterbur MEDICINE, 2003
635. Probably the most important thing my parents did to encourage me was to NOT get a television. We lived way out in the woods and once a week we would drive into town (nearly an hour away) to buy groceries. On those trips my parents always took us to the public library.
Carl Wieman PHYSICS, 2001
636. Television has proved that millions of people passionately love lust and violence.
Saul Bellow LITERATURE, 1976
637. Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
Shimon Peres PEACE, 1994
Places
Nobel prizes are geographically concentrated in North America and western Europe. Less than 5 percent of all prize winners were born south of the equator, almost all of them in Australia or New Zealand. About 40 percent of laureates have been citizens of the United States. Germany comes second, closely followed by Britain, then France. The tiny Caribbean island of St. Lucia, population 150,000, has produced two laureates, Arthur Lewis in Economics and Derek Walcott in Literature.
The most significant event affecting the distribution of prizes by nationality was the accession of the Nazis to power in Germany. Dismissed from German universities, many Jewish scientists, including several who had won or would later win the Nobel Prize, left Axis-dominated Europe, mainly for Britain and the United States. Before Hider took charge, Germany was the acknowledged world leader in the sciences. Up to 1932, Germany won 40 percent of the prizes in Chemistry and Physics, with the United States taking 9 percent. Since 1932, these figures have been reversed; Germany has won 9 percent, while American scientists have won 45 percent. Poland was similarly affected by the politics of the twentieth century, losing ten of its fifteen laureates to emigration.
Exile has consequently been the experience of many Nobel
laureates, while many others have left their native land in the pursuit of their calling. This gives a particular poignancy to their observations on their countries of birth and adoption.
AMERICA AND AMERICANS
638. I'm the happiest combination you can think of. I'm a Russian poet, an English essayist, and an American citizen!
Joseph Brodsky LITERATURE, 1987
639. I am proud to have become an American. Here is the last refuge of freedom. It is only the United States that can save the world.
Albert Einstein PHYSICS, 1921
640. What America means to the rest of the world is the hope for people everywhere that they shall be able to walk with their heads erect.
Henry Kissinger PEACE, 1973
641. I had never come across so many good people ready to help their neighbor.
Czeslaw Milosz LITERATURE, 1980
Referring to the United States
642. The most fascinating and exotic people in the world—the Average Citizens of the United States, with their friendliness to strangers and their rough teasing, their passion for material advancement and their shy idealism, their interest in all the
V. S. Naipaul LITERATURE, 2001
628. Almost all publishers belong to the ruling technocracies and therefore worship the dubious social sciences, scorn the classics, and mistrust poetry, considering it a fruidess activity or an archaic pastime.
Octavio Paz LITERATURE, 1990
629. Best-sellers are not works of literature, they are merchandise.
Octavio Paz LITERATURE, 1990
THE MEDIA
630. As long as I don't read the newspapers, I feel fine.
Otto Hahn CHEMISTRY, 1944
631. Turn off the television. Don't read the newspaper. It's all full of what went wrong yesterday.
Betty Williams PEACE, 1976
632. No poem can be the true image of our world. The true, the appalling image of our world is the newspaper.
Elias Canetti LITERATURE, 1981
633. Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
George Bernard Shaw LITERATURE, 1925
634. As journalists have occasionally said, What is there that will happen next that you can't even imagine?
Paul Lauterbur MEDICINE, 2003
635. Probably the most important thing my parents did to encourage me was to NOT get a television. We lived way out in the woods and once a week we would drive into town (nearly an hour away) to buy groceries. On those trips my parents always took us to the public library.
Carl Wieman PHYSICS, 2001
636. Television has proved that millions of people passionately love lust and violence.
Saul Bellow LITERATURE, 1976
637. Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
Shimon Peres PEACE, 1994
Places
Nobel prizes are geographically concentrated in North America and western Europe. Less than 5 percent of all prize winners were born south of the equator, almost all of them in Australia or New Zealand. About 40 percent of laureates have been citizens of the United States. Germany comes second, closely followed by Britain, then France. The tiny Caribbean island of St. Lucia, population 150,000, has produced two laureates, Arthur Lewis in Economics and Derek Walcott in Literature.
The most significant event affecting the distribution of prizes by nationality was the accession of the Nazis to power in Germany. Dismissed from German universities, many Jewish scientists, including several who had won or would later win the Nobel Prize, left Axis-dominated Europe, mainly for Britain and the United States. Before Hider took charge, Germany was the acknowledged world leader in the sciences. Up to 1932, Germany won 40 percent of the prizes in Chemistry and Physics, with the United States taking 9 percent. Since 1932, these figures have been reversed; Germany has won 9 percent, while American scientists have won 45 percent. Poland was similarly affected by the politics of the twentieth century, losing ten of its fifteen laureates to emigration.
Exile has consequently been the experience of many Nobel
laureates, while many others have left their native land in the pursuit of their calling. This gives a particular poignancy to their observations on their countries of birth and adoption.
AMERICA AND AMERICANS
638. I'm the happiest combination you can think of. I'm a Russian poet, an English essayist, and an American citizen!
Joseph Brodsky LITERATURE, 1987
639. I am proud to have become an American. Here is the last refuge of freedom. It is only the United States that can save the world.
Albert Einstein PHYSICS, 1921
640. What America means to the rest of the world is the hope for people everywhere that they shall be able to walk with their heads erect.
Henry Kissinger PEACE, 1973
641. I had never come across so many good people ready to help their neighbor.
Czeslaw Milosz LITERATURE, 1980
Referring to the United States
642. The most fascinating and exotic people in the world—the Average Citizens of the United States, with their friendliness to strangers and their rough teasing, their passion for material advancement and their shy idealism, their interest in all the
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