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شلون اخترعوا الـ stethoscope:
In 1816 I was consulted by a young woman presenting general symptoms of disease of the heart. Owing to her stoutness [obesity], little information could be gathered by application of the hand and percussion. The patient's age and sex did not permit me to resort to [direct application of ear to chest]. I recalled a well-known acoustic phenomenon: namely, if you place your ear against one end of a wooden beam the scratch of a pin at the other extremity is distinctly audible. It occured to me that this physical property might serve a useful purpose in the case with which I was then dealing. Taking a sheet of paper I rolled it into a very tight roll, one end of which I placed on the precordial region, whilst I put my ear to the other. I was both surprised and gratified at being able to hear the beating of the heart with much greater clearness and distinctness than I had ever before by direct application of my ear.
— René Laennec
— René Laennec
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يجبُ أنْ يفهَمَ هؤلاء [العلماء] أنّ دراسة الكيمياء تجعلُ المرء مؤهلًا ليكون صيدليًا، لكن ليسَ فيلسوفًا.
وكذلك الأمرُ بالنسبة لأمثالِهم من علماء الطبيعة. إذ يجبُ أنْ يفهموا أنّ المرء يمكن أنْ يكونَ خبيرًا بعلم الحيوان ويعرفَ ستّينَ نوعًا من أنواع القردة عن ظهرِ قلب، لكنّه كإنسانٍ بحد ذاته، سيبقى جاهلًا يُصَنَّفُ مع العوامِ من الناس، إنْ لم يتعلم شيئًا آخر.
وكذلك الأمرُ بالنسبة لأمثالِهم من علماء الطبيعة. إذ يجبُ أنْ يفهموا أنّ المرء يمكن أنْ يكونَ خبيرًا بعلم الحيوان ويعرفَ ستّينَ نوعًا من أنواع القردة عن ظهرِ قلب، لكنّه كإنسانٍ بحد ذاته، سيبقى جاهلًا يُصَنَّفُ مع العوامِ من الناس، إنْ لم يتعلم شيئًا آخر.
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يجبُ أنْ يفهَمَ هؤلاء [العلماء] أنّ دراسة الكيمياء تجعلُ المرء مؤهلًا ليكون صيدليًا، لكن ليسَ فيلسوفًا. وكذلك الأمرُ بالنسبة لأمثالِهم من علماء الطبيعة. إذ يجبُ أنْ يفهموا أنّ المرء يمكن أنْ يكونَ خبيرًا بعلم الحيوان ويعرفَ ستّينَ نوعًا من أنواع القردة عن…
The problem with intellectuals is that they are often "incomplete" humans; they have hypertrophied brains but juvenile psyches and deformed morality. Goethe showed this well in his story about Faust.
It is no coincidence that Kazantzakis' ideal, the person he looked up to was the simple and lively "Zorba the Greek" because he was a human in direct contact with life and existence, unlike intellectuals (like Kazantzakis himself) who approach life over-cautiously and distantly as if it's a frog to be dissected and a problem to be solved.
It is no coincidence that Kazantzakis' ideal, the person he looked up to was the simple and lively "Zorba the Greek" because he was a human in direct contact with life and existence, unlike intellectuals (like Kazantzakis himself) who approach life over-cautiously and distantly as if it's a frog to be dissected and a problem to be solved.
Nietzsche would describe them as "inverse cripples" who are atrophied in every part of their metaphorical bodies except their brains (not even minds).