Quotes Tagged "spectrum"

Of course, even before Flaubert, people knew stupidity existed, but they understood it somewhat differently: it was considered a simple absence of knowledge, a defect correctable by education. In Flaubert's novels, stupidity is an inseparable dimension of human existence. It accompanies poor Emma throughout her days, to her bed of love and to her deathbed, over which two deadly agélastes, Homais and Bournisien, go on endlessly trading their inanities like a kind of funeral oration. But the most shocking, the most scandalous thing about Flaubert's vision of stupidity is this: Stupidity does not give way to science, technology, modernity, progress; on the contrary, it progresses right along with progress!

From a scientific standpoint, Aspergers and autism are one syndrome. Aspergers is part of the autism spectrum, not a separate disorder.

Cellular companies don't innovate, they just buy more spectrum.

As the remaining voices for civil disobedience are suppressed, the political spectrum narrows even further.

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.

The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.

The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.