April 2010
13 posts
9 tags
“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
Apr 26th
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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
Apr 13th
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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)
Apr 2nd
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6 tags
“Sherwood Anderson on “true” “In the beginning when the world...”
– Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio
Apr 2nd
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4 tags
Apr 2nd
8 notes
6 tags
Apr 2nd
50 notes
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“ “It’s clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning....”
– Terence McKenna, The World… and It’s Double
Apr 2nd
7 notes
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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
Apr 2nd
1 note
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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
Apr 1st
10 notes
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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
Apr 1st
9 notes
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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)
Apr 1st
12 notes
4 tags
“Carl Sagan on the biblical God “You see, the religious people — most of...”
– Carl Sagan, Contact, Simon & Schuster, 1985, Sol Hadden p. 285
Apr 1st
3 notes
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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)
Apr 1st
15 notes
March 2010
25 posts
3 tags
“ “A paradox is not a conflict within reality. It is a conflict between...”
– Richard Feynman cited in Paradox
Mar 31st
46 notes
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“ “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” ”
– Carl Sagan, Cosmos documentary
Mar 31st
4 notes
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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
Mar 31st
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