“... is the origin of relief and disappointment.) Curiosity, a reward for exploring the unknown, evolved in fish in this broad era, as did the ability to recognise patterns – to identify objects from different angles or sound sequences at different pitches or variably lit shapes as the same essential thing.After another 250 million years the first ...”

“... many Chinese apparently ‘lived in a daze’ and ‘discontent ebbed and flowed.’It’s not unknown for foreign correspondents to have a taste for gossip, but Sheridan sustains the pleasure beyond its usefulness. He repeats the speculations of ‘dissident YouTubers’ and diaspora chatter about secret heirs and concealed drinking. He seems to revel in ...”

“... free cinema, invented in England, was the latest thing in movies at the time and practically unknown in Cuba. I gave them the money to edit the documentary, print two or three copies and design the titles. All this was done outside the Film Institute – that is, officialdom – in our TV channel labs, but quite openly. For its money, Lunes got the ...”

“... room to another, or visiting the lavatory. But at the age of eight or nine I was petrified by the unknown world of the patients, and by the horror of what I would find if I opened the wrong door by mistake.The history of postwar British psychiatric care, from locked wards and psycho-surgery to psychotherapy in the community, can be tracked with remarkable ...”

“... the intellectual withdraws from the social (‘known to few’) to make possible his own work (‘unknown to fewer’); and ‘withdrawal’ itself, in more senses than one, may be the source and condition of that melancholia which gave Burton his great Anatomy while destroying the man himself.The dedicatory inscription of Q (as the 1609 Quarto edition of the ...”

“... principles of religion, marriage and burial: ‘uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.’ But Vico, too, showed himself less than completely confident in the scope of this moral code, with an equivocation nicely prefiguring that of his commentator. ‘Since the criterion it uses is that what ...”

“... as well as the rich a stake in the regime, being ancient and venerable, could hardly have been unknown to Marx. For him to declare such an arrangement impossible in principle under modern conditions evinces a confidence in his own powers of foresight that was already unjustifiable at the time. To the extent that the Manifesto successfully conveyed its ...”

“... his statue here, when neither Nietzsche nor D’Annunzio have one), this will be a monument to the unknown tyrant. In fact, the British know less about Cuba now than they did about Argentina before the Falklands fiasco. Then all they knew was that that country, where the gaucho roams free on the pampas, invented the tango and was ruled by a fake blonde actress ...”

“... Nationalists in the Scottish Labour Party, and also among the Liberal Democrats, while an unknown number of small or tiny-n nationalists support the SNP less for its ideology than because it registers the most effective protest against Them. In existing circumstances They are of course bound to be mainly English, or at least perceived as held in ...”

“... maker in Paris, as he waded through the contents of a letter from Harar penned by an unknown expatriate in February 1881, requesting ‘a full report on the best manufacturers, in France and elsewhere, of mathematical, optical, astronomical, electrical, meteorological, pneumatic, mechanical, hydraulic and mineralogical instruments’. Batin would ...”

“... the pubs on Great Portland Street. Broadcasting House was a maze of stairwells, long corridors and unknown powers, a world within worlds that couldn’t quite decide whether it was a branch of the civil service or a theatrical den. Many of the men who worked there were getting their own way in the national interest, and the best (or worst) of them combined the ...”

“... science by paranoid militarism. The human species’ collective fervour for an encounter with the unknown reveals itself as a cover for nihilism, our urge to destroy.Fiasco is the angrier book, and the more unruly. A final statement on his great theme, it’s clotted with digressive meta-stories, recursive arguments and breathtaking set-pieces, as if Lem ...”

“... what has been transacted. The OTC market in financial derivatives, for instance, is another known unknown: we can guess at its size but nobody really knows. The Bank for International Settlements, the Basel-based central bank of central banks, gives a twice yearly estimate of the OTC market. The most recent number is $532 trillion. So​ that’s where we are ...”

“... of pages of rough drafts, fair copies and proofs’ as well as a huge, previously unknown verse play, La Seine, of seven thousand lines with speaking parts for over five hundred characters, and Les Noces, another unstageable drama in three parts extending to over twenty thousand lines. Roussel’s arduous and (from an economic point of ...”

“... the Common Market. A pioneering mood of national confidence, a willingness to strike out into the unknown, is lacking in England as much as it is in Scotland. The Trojan horse will be staying put. Europe’s luck is out on that front, too. As for the immediate future, the Berlin-Brussels axis can probably continue to manage the crisis on Germany’s terms as ...”