We have not the motive to prepare ourselves for a "life-work" of teaching, of social work--we know that we would lay it down with ...hallelujah in the height of our success, to make a home for the right man. And all the time in the background of our consciousness rings the warning that perhaps the right man will never come. A great love is given to very few. Perhaps this make-shift time filler of a job is our life work after all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So much of the trouble is because I am a woman. To me it seems a very terrible thing to be a woman. There is one crown which perha...ps is worth it all--a great love, a quiet home, and children. We all know that is all that is worthwhile, and yet we must peg away, showing off our wares on the market if we have money, or manufacturing careers for ourselves if we haven't.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity a...nd degeneracy. Unlike a computer, it has no replicative memory. It is historical and value driven. It forms categories by internal criteria and by constraints acting at many scales, not by means of a syntactically constructed program. The world with which the brain interacts is not unequivocally made up of classical categories.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom'...s way of knowing about atoms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »