#men

The second stream of material that is going to come out of this project is a programming environment and a set of programming tools where we really want to focus again on the needs of the newbie. This environment is going to have to be extremely user-friendly. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

#come #environment #extremely #focus #going

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#before #being #even #gods #made

Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#among #beautiful #being #being beautiful #cannot

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#certain #future #men #might #moments

There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#enough #extremely #hated #little #low

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#basis #built #certain #few #ideal

But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#arms race #both #both sides #cold #cold war

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#achievement #atom #atom bomb #became #bomb

Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states, entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#commitment #desire #disarmament #entered #expressed

The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#atom #atom bomb #basis #bomb #cities