Peter Lax Quotes

Rodney Stark confirms the point, saying, For far too long, historians have accepted the claim that the conversion of the Emperor Constantine (ca. 285–337) caused the triumph of Christianity. To the contrary, he destroyed its most attractive and dynamic aspects, turning a high-intensity, grassroots movement into an arrogant institution controlled by an elite who often managed to be both brutal and lax.… Constantine’s “favor” was his decision to divert to the Christians the massive state funding on which the pagan temples had always depended. Overnight, Christianity became “the most-favoured recipient of the near limitless resources of imperial favors.” A faith that had been meeting in humble structures was suddenly housed in magnificent public buildings—the new church of Saint Peter in Rome was modeled on the basilican form used for imperial throne halls.

Furlonger encouraged a relaxed style, more akin to an academic think tank than a traditional military organisation, which led to stories of lax handling of classified documents. Highly controversial allegations of poor security and left-wing sympathies in ONA drew public attention to the tensions between the agencies and between individuals and groups within them. These inter-agency rivalries, often expressed

There often is a great difference between what we fear and what is real.

Radiation is older than the universe - thorium-232 has a half life of about 14 billion years, almost three times longer than the age of the Earth. Without radiation, there would be no life on Earth.

All of us are radioactive. We, and our environment, exist by virtue of green plants that capture photons, the basic units of light energy - they are produced by thermonuclear fusion within the Sun. Plants use these photons via photosynthesis to separate water into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen is then combined with carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to produce glucose, which the plant burns to produce energy. The oxygen is released into the atmosphere, and we and virtually all other living creatures breathe it. Energy produced by burning glucose is transferred to us when we eat plants, or animals that fee on plants or plant products.