Thomas Hobbes Quotes
When two, or more men, know of one and the same fact, they are said to be CONSCIOUS of it one to another; which is as much as to know it together.
Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. Andrew Crooke, 1651, p. 31.
To the general public Ballard is a star—the man who found the Titanic. Whereas he acknowledges that this has helped him raise money for science, but it has also caused him problems in the scientific community. Most important scientific work is done by teams and they depend on others who have laid the groundwork before them. Few are the Einsteins and the Fermi’s who on their own produce great scientific achievements.
Although most people do not realize it, ideas cannot be copyrighted under present and traditional copyright law. The manifestation of the idea, the specific design, words, fonts, and layout can be copyrighted, but someone else can legally use and publish that idea with a different design and words.
Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher, considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory. In addition to political philosophy, Hobbes contributed to a diverse array of other fields, including history, jurisprudence, geometry, the physics of gases, theology, and ethics, as well as philosophy in general.
