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In 2015, Modern Times ranked 67th on BBC's "100 Greatest American Films" list, voted on by film critics from around the world. [35] The film was voted at No. 12 on the list of The 100 greatest comedies of all time by a poll of 253 film critics from 52 countries conducted by the BBC in 2017. [ 36 ]
Inspection paradox: (Bus waiting time paradox) For a given random distribution of bus arrivals, the average rider at a bus stop observes more delays than the average operator of the buses. Lindley's paradox : Tiny errors in the null hypothesis are magnified when large data sets are analyzed, leading to false but highly statistically significant ...
Aristotle's objection to the arrow paradox was that "Time is not composed of indivisible nows any more than any other magnitude is composed of indivisibles." [ 30 ] Thomas Aquinas , commenting on Aristotle's objection, wrote "Instants are not parts of time, for time is not made up of instants any more than a magnitude is made of points, as we ...
Films on the list span a period of 80 years, starting with Sherlock Jr. (1924) directed by Buster Keaton, and finishing with Finding Nemo (2003) directed by Andrew Stanton. Of the 33 films in the list that were released before 1950, only 6 were produced outside Hollywood, and 13 of those 27 American films were directed by men born abroad: [4]
Both were early advocates of birth control at a time when this was considered scandalous. [23] Lord Amberley was a deist, and even asked the philosopher John Stuart Mill to act as Russell's secular godfather. [24] Mill died the year after Russell's birth, but his writings later influenced Russell's life. Russell as a 4-year-old
The 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century is a list compiled in August 2016 by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), chosen by a voting poll of 177 film critics from around the world. [ 1 ] It was compiled by collating the top ten films submitted by the critics who were asked to list the best films released since the year 2000 .
Ernst Ingmar Bergman [a] (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish film and theatre director and screenwriter. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential film directors of all time, [1] [2] [3] his films have been described as "profoundly personal meditations into the myriad struggles facing the psyche and the soul". [4]
When philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell was asked who was the greatest man that France had produced in modern times, he instantly replied "Poincaré". [84] Bell noted that if Poincaré had been as strong in practical science as he was in theoretical, he might have "made a fourth with the incomparable three, Archimedes, Newton, and ...