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Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind. Hans Hofmann

Life Nature Creative Mind Constant Inexhaustible Stimulus Being Creative Mind

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium. Hans Hofmann

Art Soul Become Every Medium Interview Emotion Mastery Contingent Integrated Stir May Impulses Which Us Expression Profound

That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation. Hans Jonas

Death Alone Nature Man Care Abyss Situation Nothing Other Cares Projecting Way Unprecedented One-Way Objective Only Facing True Does Contingency His Truly Meanings

Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities. Hans Jonas

Responsibility Become Way Criterion Unavoidable Civilization Imperative Development Modern Modern Civilization Human Human Actions Should Evaluate Special Actions Including Activities Assess Fundamental

To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper. Hans Jonas

The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was. Hans Jonas

Together Creation Tree Our Once Latest Must Mute Over Powers Perish Revelation Mount Heed Themselves Lest Sermon Things

For a scientific theory of him to be possible, man, including his habits of valuation, has to be taken as determined by causal laws, as an instance and part of nature. Hans Jonas

Nature Man Possible Determined Laws Habits Instance Part Taken Him Scientific Scientific Theory Causal His Theory Including

The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price. Hans Jonas

Truth Simple Losing Seriously Wish Past Whatever Living Our We Cannot Physical Only Could Simple Truth Price Thus Identity Without Real Go Enduring In The Past Cannot Either Means Therefore Present

The will to set values and the power to make them law are jointly at the bottom of all operative norms. When linked to divine wisdom, this source of moral law is still in safe hands which man can trust. Hans Jonas

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something. Hans Magnus Enzensberger

You Culture See Somehow Something Glass Dropping Like Does Little

The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever. Hans Zimmer

Day You Conversation Director Solitude Writing Somebody Long Picture Whatever Keyboard All Day Hopefully Wrestle Something More Obscure Studio Head Come Like Ideas Still Sounds Gets Done Place Then Shows Away

When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have found their own place in the world. They are each legitimate art forms. Hans Zimmer

Art Saying People World Black Black And White First Own White Out Sound Still Came Were Art Forms Any Maybe Legitimate Place Theater Forms Movies Each Found Now

With animated film, you have to create the sonic world; there's nothing there. You get to color things in more and you're allowed to overreach yourself a little bit more, and it's great fun. Hans Zimmer

Great You Yourself World Nothing Bit Great Fun More Color Animated Allowed Sonic Get Little Little Bit Create Fun Film Things

Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period. Harald zur Hausen

War Family World Members Post-War City Born Area Period Survived Child Experienced Fortunately Bombed Second World War Second World War

In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy. Harald zur Hausen

It is important to note that there exist vast gender differences in the global role of papillomaviruses in human cancers. This is mainly due to the role of this virus family in the induction of cancer of the cervix. Harald zur Hausen

Family Cancer Gender Important Differences Virus Vast Mainly Global Due Exist Role Cancers Human Note

I am utterly, consummately intense, wearing sunflowers and poppies and dahlias in my buttonhole. Harry Graf Kessler

Wearing Am Intense Utterly

It seems to me we are now, since 1789, going through the same sort of process of regeneration the Roman world went through between 300 and 500. It is only to be hoped all civilization will not again be destroyed by the anarchists. Harry Graf Kessler

At age eleven, I became a member of the circulating library of my home town. From there on I was rarely seen outside but was reading two to four books per week, the subjects ranging from archaeology over ethnology and geography to zoology. Needless to say that I did not do much homework. Hartmut Michel

Home Library Age Seen Reading Homework Needless Books Say Member Archaeology Rarely Per Week Outside Over Town Became Geography Subjects Did Much Home Town Eleven Four Two Zoology

I was born in Ludwigsburg, Wuerttemberg, in the southwestern part of the Federal Republic of Germany on July 18, 1948, as the elder son of Karl and Frieda Michel. My ancestors lived in that area for generations, mainly as farmers. Hartmut Michel

Son Ancestors Born Area Federal Part Generations Mainly July Germany Republic Elder Karl Farmers Lived

At school, my favorite subjects were history, biology, chemistry, and physics. Especially the teaching in physics was excellent. Most of my understanding of it I got at high school, not at the university. Hartmut Michel

History Physics School Understanding Chemistry Biology Favorite High High School Excellent Most Got Were Subjects Teaching University

Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects. Hasso Plattner

Business Relationships Objects Between Dealing Reporting

The software industry has to become better in componentization. That's a clear focus for most of the software companies. How components look, how they are maintained, the ability to maintain them separately. Hasso Plattner

Better Focus Become Software Components Ability Clear Maintain Maintained Look Most Industry How Them Separately Companies

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