“It
is therefore necessary to be suspicious of those who seek to convince
us with means other than reason, and of charismatic leaders: we must be
cautious about delegating to others our judgement and our will. Since it
is difficult to distinguish true prophets from false, it is as well to
regard all prophets with suspicion. It is better to renounce revealed
truths, even if they exalt us by their splendour or if we find them
convenient because we can acquire them gratis. It is better to content
oneself with other more modest and less exciting truths, those one
acquires painfully, little by little and without shortcuts, with study,
discussion, and reasoning, those that can be verified and demonstrated.”
- Primo Levi, born 31 July 1919.
Italian Jewish chemist and writer whose best-known works include If
This Is a Man (1947) (U.S.: Survival in Auschwitz), his account of the
year he spent as a prisoner in Auschwitz; and his unique memoir, The
Periodic Table (1975), linked to qualities of the elements, which the
Royal Institution of Great Britain named the best science book ever
written.
- Primo Levi, born 31 July 1919.
Italian Jewish chemist and writer whose best-known works include If This Is a Man (1947) (U.S.: Survival in Auschwitz), his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in Auschwitz; and his unique memoir, The Periodic Table (1975), linked to qualities of the elements, which the Royal Institution of Great Britain named the best science book ever written.
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