Writer and university professor David Foster Wallace said, “The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to overintellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract ...

Democritus' theory of vision combines the notions of images (εἲδωλα) streaming from objects and air imprints, which gives him the resources to account for the perception of the relative size and ...

Stenger, an emeritus professor of physics at the University of Hawaii, argues in this quick philosophical treatise and history of atomic theory that the existence of the atom proves that God doesn’t ...

Editor’s Note: Professor WERNER HEISENBERG, who was born in Duisburg in 1901, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932 for his work on the quantum theory. A member of the faculty of the ...

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Mosaic is a quarterly journal published by the University of Manitoba that brings insights from a wide variety of disciplines to bear on the theoretical, practical, and cultural dimensions of literary ...