Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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Nationality: Hungarian Type: Philosopher Born: November 9, 1922 Death: February 2, 1974 |
But the most important thing about that story, which is not often told, is that as a result after the Cuban missile crisis, immediate steps were taken to correct our inability to collect on the movement of nuclear material out of the Soviet Union to other places.
If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?

