December 2010
101 posts
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“Steven Pinker on Metaphor and the Mind
“I think that metaphor really is a...”
– Steven Pinker, Canadian-American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist and linguist, cited in Mariana Soffer, Metaphor and the Mind, Sing your own lullaby
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“ “Think about how much of our bodies and minds have archaeological traces...”
– Timothy Morton, Ecology without Nature: Neolithic (tnx wildcat2030)
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“ “I think that metaphor really is a key to explaining thought and...”
– Steven Pinker cited in Mariana Soffer, Metaphor and the Mind, Sing your own lullaby
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“ “The abstract way we think is really grounded in the concrete, bodily world...”
– John Bargh, cited in Mariana Soffer, Metaphor and the Mind, Sing your own lullaby
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“ “The abstract way we think is really grounded in the concrete, bodily world...”
– John Bargh, cited in Mariana Soffer, Metaphor and the Mind, Sing your own lullaby
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“ “The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.” ”
– Publilius Syrus, Latin writer of maxims, flourished in the 1st century BC. He was a Syrian who was brought as a slave to Italy, but by his wit and talent he won the favor of his master, who freed and educated him.
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“ “It was his subconscious which told him this — that infuriating...”
– Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul, William Heinemann 1988
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“ “You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know...”
– Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless, Pan Books, UK; Harmony Books, U.S., 1992
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“ “Think about how much of our bodies and minds have archaeological traces...”
– Timothy Morton, Ecology without Nature: Neolithic (tnx wildcat2030)
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“ “A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can...”
– Willard Van Orman Quine, On What There Is, (1948 version)
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“Gilles Deleuze in Difference and Repetition:
“However, how are we to explain...”
– Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition (tnx spaceweaver)
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“ “A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can...”
– Willard Van Orman Quine, On What There Is, (1948 version)
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“ “However, how are we to explain the fact that - in the case of Bergson’s...”
– Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition (tnx spaceweaver)
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“ “Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here...”
– Albert Einstein, My Credo, Speech to the German League of Human Rights, Berlin (Autumn 1932); as published in Einstein: A Life in Science (1994) by Michael White and John Gribbin This repeats or revises some statements and ideas of Mein Weltbild (1931).
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“Albert Einstein on religion and skeptical attitude
“Through the reading...”
– Albert Einstein, Autobiographical Notes (1979) Edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp
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“Albert Einstein on Individualism
“A man’s value to the community...”
– Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, Nobel Prize laureate, (1879-1955), The World As I See It (1949)
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“ “Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process...”
– Peter Senge, American scientist and director of the Center for Organizational Learning at the MIT Sloan School of Management, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (1990)
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“ “If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you...”
– Douglas Adams, cited in Richard Dawkins: Eulogy for Douglas Adams, Church of Saint Martin in the Fields, London, 17th September 2001
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“ “Carl Sagan: Can you be sure that others have not come before you and...”
– Carl Sagan, Broca’s Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
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“Albert Einstein on God
In January of 1954, just a year before his death,...”
– Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, Nobel Prize laureate, (1879-1955), cited in Letters of Note. Picture source: Bloomsbury Auctions, Autograph Letter signed to Eric B. Gutkind, in German, 1½pp. & envelope, 4to, Princeton, 3rd...
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“ “Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having...”
– Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Harmony Books, 1980
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“Albert Einstein on the physical reality
“I just want to explain what I...”
– Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, Nobel Prize laureate, (1879-1955), “What must be an essential feature of any future fundamental physics?” Letter to Max Born; published in Albert Einstein-Hedwig und Max Born (1969)...
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“Albert Einstein on the physical concepts and ‘objective truth’...”
– Albert Einstein, The Evolution of Physics (1938) (co-written with Leopold Infeld)
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“Albert Einstein on Individualism
“A man’s value to the community...”
– Albert Einstein, The World As I See It (1949)
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“ “Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here...”
– Albert Einstein, My Credo, Speech to the German League of Human Rights, Berlin (Autumn 1932); as published in Einstein: A Life in Science (1994) by Michael White and John Gribbin This repeats or revises some statements and ideas of Mein Weltbild (1931).
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“ “Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the...”
– Albert Einstein, Autobiographical Notes (1979) Edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp
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“Albert Einstein on the physical reality
“I just want to explain what I...”
– Albert Einstein, “What must be an essential feature of any future fundamental physics?” Letter to Max Born; published in Albert Einstein-Hedwig und Max Born (1969) “Briefwechsel 1916-55” (Picture source: Albert Einstein during a lecture in Vienna in 1921)
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“ “Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not,...”
– Albert Einstein, The Evolution of Physics (1938) (co-written with Leopold Infeld)
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““A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part...”
– Albert Einstein, Letter of 1950, as quoted in The New York Times (29 March 1972) and The New York Post (28 November 1972).
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“ “In the human sciences, culture and language have also been progressively...”
– Andrés Vaccari, “Unweaving the Program: Stiegler and the Hegemony of Technics”, cited in a conversation between the philosopher Bernard Stiegler and cultural theorist Irit Rogoff in Transindividuation, Journal e-flux 2010
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“ “Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum...”
– Carl Sagan
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“Carl Sagan’s reflections on our times
“We live in an...”
– Carl Sagan, Broca’s Brain, 1978
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“ “Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world....”
– Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)
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“ “Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.” ”
– Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer, essayist, and poet (1899-1986), Pascal’s Sphere (La esfera de Pascal) (1951)
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“ “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of the...”
– Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Pan Macmillan 1980
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“ “The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and...”
– Douglas Adams, answering Richard Dawkins’ question ‘What is it about science that really gets your blood running?’ cited in Richard Dawkins: Eulogy for Douglas Adams, Church of Saint Martin in the Fields, London, 17th September 2001
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“Deep Thought computer’s answer for the question about Life, the Universe,...”
– Douglas Adams, English writer and dramatist (1952-2001), The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Harmony Books, 1980
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“ “42 is a nice number that you can take home and introduce to your...”
– Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Harmony Books, 1980
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“ “Of course, it would be unfair for me to comment. Douglas told me in the...”
– Stephen Fry, on the meaning of 42 in Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (via cocknbull)
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“ “Anything that happens, happens.
Anything that, in happening, causes...”
– Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless, Pan Books, UK; Harmony Books, U.S., 1992
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“ “What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and...”
– Erwin Schrodinger, physicist and theoretical biologist who was one of the fathers of quantum mechanics, Nobel Prize in Physics (1887-1961) (tnx wildcat2030)
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“ “What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and...”
– Erwin Schrodinger (tnx wildcat2030)
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“ “The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and...”
– Douglas Adams, answering Richard Dawkins’ question ‘What is it about science that really gets your blood running?’ cited in Richard Dawkins: Eulogy for Douglas Adams, Church of Saint Martin in the Fields, London, 17th September 2001
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“ “If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you...”
– Douglas Adams, cited in Richard Dawkins: Eulogy for Douglas Adams, Church of Saint Martin in the Fields, London, 17th September 2001
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“ “Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, ‘This is an...”
– Douglas Adams, Speech at Digital Biota 2, Cambridge, UK, (1998)
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“ “Just supposing,” he said, “just supposing” —he...”
– Douglas Adams
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“ “The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of...”
– Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Pan Macmillan 1980
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“ “You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know...”
– Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless, Pan Books, UK; Harmony Books, U.S., 1992
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“ “It was his subconscious which told him this—-that infuriating part...”
– Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul, William Heinemann 1988
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“ “Anything that happens, happens.
Anything that, in happening, causes...”
– Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless, Pan Books, UK; Harmony Books, U.S., 1992 