“Emotions shaped Greek culture no less than reason. This is a simple and straightforward message. But, still, the story is full of tensions, contrasts, contradictions, and conflicts.”
“All around us, physical processes play out in geometric terms, such as straight lines (rays of light), ellipses (planetary motion), or parallelograms (the combined effect of two forces).”
Paul Seidel in Charting One’s Course through Mirror Symmetry
“A view had gained ground among the reform-minded in Iran that a literate public was the key to a prosperous country, and that learning and the printed word could bring about progress.”
Negin Nabavi in The Birth of Newspaper Culture in Nineteenth-Century Iran
“The people’s version of the 1937 Haitian Massacre brings us crucial lessons about the power of a history from below.”
Amín Pérez in The Solidarity They Couldn't Kill
