“It is human affliction and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom. In general, we must not wish for the disappearance of any of our troubles, but grace to transform them. For men of courage, sufferings are…
Laughter is the closest distance between two people. –Victor Hugo “The sound of laughter is universal” state linguists and psychologists. Humans are born with the instinct of laughter. It’s part of the social contract. When one laughs, the other…
God is very subtle, but he is not malicious. –Einstein Nobel winning Professor of Physics Charles H. Townes (1915-2015) explains why he believes that science and religion may ultimately converge : Some consider science and religion as fundamentally different…
Once upon a time, a king had three daughters. The beauty of the youngest, Psyche, ψυχή was beyond description. The fame of her beauty was spread all around that people from other countries would come to see her,…
The renowned neuropsychiatrist Boris Cyrulnik links the present Covid crisis with the race for the performance of our globalized societies. He attributes the differences in individual reactions to crisis to the fact that people confronting it are not in…
“We should not be confident in our ability to keep a super intelligent genie locked up in his bottle forever. Sooner or later it will be out…The answer is to figure out how to create the superintelligent A.I.…
Many myths about creation reached us from ancient Sumerians up to the present day, preserved on reliefs, stone tablets, pictures and epic legends. According to what was written in Sumer (3000 BC) and the epic of Gilgamesh, which…
600 years after the foundations of science set by Hippocrates (400 BC), the erudite shift in medicine was built up by the pioneers of Islamic medicine spreading from Alexandria to Edessa (Urfa in modern Turkey) and Athens. In the 10th…
Marcelo Gleiser, an astrophysicist and philosopher exploring the origins of the cosmos and creation accentuates humanity’s perpetual struggle to understand its place in the universe : We are naturally driven to make sense of the world and our place in…
Boris Cyrulnik, the eminent neuropsychiatrist known for his work on resilience explains how societies can resist the present crisis of epidemic in the world: We have to adapt to this invisible aggression. Human evolution takes place only in crises. After…
