April 2010
13 posts
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Brian J. Ford: The secrets of intelligence lie within a single cell
“The...
– Brian J. Ford, The secrets of intelligence lie within a single cell, New Scientist, 26 April 2010
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“Imagine that you were on the threshold of this fairytale, sometime...
– Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian intellectual and writer, The Orange Girl, Orion Publishing, 2004
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David Weinberger on knowledge
“Knowledge is not a result merely of...
– David Weinberger, The Problem with the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom Hierarchy, Harvard Business Review (via wildcat2030)
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Sherwood Anderson on “true”
“In the beginning when the world...
– Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio
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“It’s clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning....
– Terence McKenna, The World… and It’s Double
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“Morality is a form of decision-making, and is based on emotions, not...
– Jonah Lehrer, American journalist who writes on the topics of psychology, neuroscience, and the relationship between science and the humanities
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E. O. Wilson’s views on religion
“The predisposition to religious belief is...
– E. O. Wilson’s views on religion as paraphrased by Michael McGoodwin
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“Anything you don’t understand, Mr. Rankin, you attribute to God....
– Carl Sagan, Contact, Simon & Schuster, 1985, Dr. Arroway p. 166
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“We don’t need a new religion or a new bible. We need a new experience—a...
– Alan Watts, The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (via commondense)
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Carl Sagan on the biblical God
“You see, the religious people — most of...
– Carl Sagan, Contact, Simon & Schuster, 1985, Sol Hadden p. 285
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Slavoj Žižek on european atheism
“The history of European atheism, from...
– Slavoj Žižek, Violence. Six Sideways Reflections, London: Profile Books, 2008, pp. 117-118. (tnx msodradek)
March 2010
25 posts
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“A paradox is not a conflict within reality. It is a conflict between...
– Richard Feynman cited in Paradox
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“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
– Carl Sagan, Cosmos documentary
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“I never said it. Honest. Oh, I said there are maybe 100 billion galaxies...
– Carl Sagan, Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium