What had I expected of the first child? Everything. Rocket scientist. Neurosurgeon. Designated hitter. We talked wisely at cocktai...l parties about the sad mistake our mothers had made in pinning all their hopes and dreams on us. We were full of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which ...is thereby designated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Major sex differences in intellectual function seem to lie in patterns of ability rather than in overall level of intelligence (IQ...).... Men, on average, perform better than women on certain spatial tasks. In particular, men have an advantage in tests that require the subject to imagine rotating an object or manipulating it in some other way. They outperform women in mathematical reasoning tests and in navigating their way through a route. Further, men are more accurate in tests of target-directed motor skills--that is, in guiding or intercepting projectiles. Women tend to be better than men at rapidly identifying matching items, a skill called perceptual speed. They have greater verbal fluency, including the ability to find words that begin with a specific letter or fulfill some other constraint. Women also outperform men in arithmetic calculation and in recalling landmarks from a route. Moreover, women are faster at certain precision manual tasks, such as placing pegs in designated holes on a board.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism.... Essentially these same three doctrines reappear in twentieth-century surveys of the philosophy of mathematics under the new names logicism, intuitionism, and formalism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Computers "remember" things in the form of discrete entries: the input of quantities, graphics, words, etc. Each item is separable..., perhaps designated by a unique address or file name, and all of it subject to total recall. Unless the machine malfunctions, it can regurgitate everything it has stored exactly as it was entered, whether a single number or a lengthy document. This is what we expect of the machine. Human memory, on the other hand, is the invisible psychic adhesive that holds our identity together from moment to moment. This makes it a radically different phenomenon from computer memory. For one thing, it is fluid rather than granular, more like a wave than a particle. Like a wave, it spreads through the mind, puddling up here and there in odd personal associations that may be of the most inexplicable kind. It flows not only through the mind, but through the emotions, the senses, the body. We remember things as no computer can--in our muscles and reflexes: how to swim, play an instrument, use a tool.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly lik...eable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am perhaps being a bit facetious but if some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpit ...against the K.K.K. in the '20s, I would have a little more genuine American respect for their Christianity!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »