No scholar should ever have to preface their keynote speech with "If I receive an air raid alert, I will have to leave my talk and go take shelter."
Schlagwort-Archiv: Krieg
Warkeynote.
Logicalidarity.
The Board of the Dutch Association for Logic and Philosophy of the Exact Sciences (VvL) unconditionally condemns the military aggression by Russia in Ukraine. We stand up against the blatant attack of the Russian government against a sovereign state, against democracy and against innocent people. In these difficult times we express our full solidarity and support to our Ukrainian colleagues.
Het bestuur van de Vereniging voor Logica en Wijsbegeerte van de Exacte Wetenschappen (VvL) veroordeelt de militaire agressie van Rusland in Oekraïne onvoorwaardelijk. Wij staan op tegen de brute aanval van de Russische regering op een soevereine staat, op de democratie en op onschuldige mensen. In deze moeilijke tijden betuigen we onze volledige solidariteit en steun aan onze Oekraïense collega's.
VvL: Statement on the War in Ukraine / Verklaring met betrekking tot oorlog in Oekraïne
Added Material Strength.
We knew the world would not be the same.
A few people laughed.
A few people cried.
Afterǝɹoɟǝq.
After the war,
Who will you be fighting for?
Still quotable.
I'm not ready to make nice
I'm not ready to back down
I'm still mad as hell and
I don't have time to go round and round and round
Der hat Zähne.
I think every big town should contain artificial waterfalls that people could descend in very fragile canoes, and they should contain bathing pools full of mechanical sharks. Any person found advocating a preventive war should be condemned to two hours a day with these ingenious monsters.
Bertrand Russell: Autobiography