September 2010
68 posts
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“William Deresiewicz on multitasking and the value of solitude
“A study...”
– William Deresiewicz, Solitude and Leadership, The American Scholar, spring 2010, (Picture source)
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“William Deresiewicz on Solitude and Leadership
“Solitude, the ability...”
– William Deresiewicz, Solitude and Leadership, The American Scholar, spring 2010 ☞ See also: William Deresiewicz on solitude
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“Chris Arkenberg on the Cybernetic Self
“The word “cybernetic” derives...”
– Chris Arkenberg, The Cybernetic Self, Polytopia, Sep 23, 2010
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“Chris Arkenberg: while we augment & extend our abilities through machines,...”
– Chris Arkenberg, The Cybernetic Self, Polytopia, Sep 23, 2010
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“ “Reason has built the modern world. It is a precious but also a fragile...”
– Richard Dawkins, The Enemies of Reason, “Slaves to Superstition” [1.01], 13 August 2007
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“ “As we know, There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We...”
– Donald Rumsfeld, Department of Defense US news briefing, 12 February 2002
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“ “I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but...”
– Attributed to Robert McCloskey, U.S. State Department spokesman, by Marvin Kalb, CBS reporter, in TV Guide, 31 March 1984, citing an unspecified press briefing during the Vietnam war.
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“Daniel Dennett on the role of language in consciousness, and the relationship...”
– Daniel Dennett, Consciousness Explained (tnx inwrdbound)
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“ “He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her....”
– Paulo Coelho, The Valkyries: An Encounter with Angels
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“ “At the extreme limits of empiricism meaning is totally plunged into noise, the...”
– Michel Serres, Hermes: Literature, Science and Philosophy, cited in Daniel Rourke, Communicating the Body \ Interpreting the Code (tnx wildcat2030)
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“Daniel Dennett on culture as evolutionary process “What we are is very...”
– Daniel Dennett, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (tnx inwrdbound)
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“ “The authors of these books take part in the great conversation.” ”
– Mortimer J. Adler, American philosopher, educator, and popular author (1902-2001)
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“ “Imagine: inside, in the nerves, in the head — that is, these nerves are...”
– The imprisoned Dmitri Karamazov as he tries to make sense of what he has just learned from a visiting academic from Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s, The Brothers Karamazov (1880), cited in Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate. The Modern Denial of Human Nature, Penguin Books 2003.
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“Gilles Fauconnier & Mark Turner on the cause, effect and logic
“There is...”
– Gilles Fauconnier & Mark Turner, The Way We Think. Conceptual Blending & the Mind’s Hidden Complexities, Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2002, p.75.
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“ “You see, one thing is, I can live with the doubt and uncertainty and not...”
– Richard P. Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, Perseus Books, 2000.
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“ “It is far more useful to view computational science as part of the...”
– Merlin Donald, cited in Gilles Fauconnier & Mark Turner, The Way We Think. Conceptual Blending & the Mind’s Hidden Complexities, Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2002, p.3.
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“Albert Einstein on the contradictory drives that impel a person into science ...”
– Albert Einstein originally quoted in Gerald Holton, The Scientific Imagination, cited in Vera John-Steiner, Notebooks of the Mind - Explorations of Thinking, Oxford University Press, 1997, p.200-201.
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“ “Art bids us [to] touch and taste and hear and see the world (…)...”
– W. B. Yeats cited in Vera John-Steiner, Notebooks of the Mind - Explorations of Thinking, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 13.
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“Science
“Scientific hypotheses require proof; works of art do not. Both...”
– Morton A. Meyers, Science, creativity, and serendipity, 756, American Journal of Roentgenology, Vol 165, 755-764, October 1995, p. 756 from [8] A. Storr, The dynamics of creation, Ballantine, 1993, [9] Edelman G. Quoted by: Levy S. Annals of science: Dr. Edelman’s brain. The New Yorker 1994:70
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“W. I. B. Beveridge on the role of chance in science (Honoré Daumier, Mr....”
– W. I. B. Beveridge, The art of scientific investigation, New York: Random House (vintage), 1957. Illustration published in Le Charivari on September 22, 1858, Lithograph on original newsprint. Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Purchase, Paul and Miriam Kirkley Fund for Acquisitions,...
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“ “The creative personality is always one that looks on the world as fit for...”
– Jacob Bronowski, The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1978.
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“ “I know not what I may appear to the world, but to myself I appear to...”
– Isaac Newton cited in North JD., Isaac Newton, Oxford University Press, 1967
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“ “All things are meaningless accidents, works of chance unless your...”
– Wilhelm Wilims, Dutch-German composer, best known for writing Wien Neêrlands Bloed, which served as the Dutch national anthem (1772-1847)
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“ “Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open...”
– Carl Sagan in Interview with Charlie Rose, 1996
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“ “Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are...”
– Carl Sagan, Cosmos, Random House, 1980, p. 339.
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“ “Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our...”
– Carl Sagan, Cosmos, Random House, 1980, p. 282.
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“Carl Sagan on the future of humanity
“The choice is with us still, but...”
– Carl Sagan, American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences (1934-1996), Cosmos, Random House, 1980, p.318.
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“ “Space is big. Really big. You won’t believe how hugely...”
– Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, 1979
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“ “The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding....”
– Carl Sagan, Cosmos, Random House, 1980, p.4.
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“ “For as long as there been humans we have searched for our place in the...”
– Carl Sagan, Cosmos, Random House, 1980, p. 193.
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“Carl Sagan on experiments as the key to truth
“The truth may be...”
– Carl Sagan, Wonder and Skepticism, Skeptical Enquirer Volume 19, Issue 1, Jan-Feb 1995
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“Carl Sagan on skepticism
“The major religions on the Earth contradict...”
– Carl Sagan, Contact, Simon & Schuster, 1985, p. 162
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“ “People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional...”
– Buckminster Fuller, cited in Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Plan: A Proposal for Survival (1977)
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“Language is like augmented reality - an overlay that changes how we think,...”
– David Robson, science and technology journalist, What’s in a name? The words behind thought, New Scientist, 6 Sep 2010 (tnx wildcat2030)
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“ “Time goes, you say? Ah no, alas, time stays, we go.” ”
– Henry Austin Dobson, English poet and essayist (1840-1921)
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“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;
For now hath time made me his...”
– William Shakespeare, King Richard in Richard II
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“Kenneth Clark on the history and humanitarian outlook
“We are so much...”
– Kenneth Clark, Ch. 13: Heroic Materialism, Civilisation (1969)
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“As long as words a different sense will bear,
And each may be his own...”
– John Dryden, The Hind and the Panther (1687), Pt. I line 462–465
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“ “We have designed our civilization based on science and technology and at...”
– Carl Sagan, interview with Anne Kalosh (1995)
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“Kenneth Clark on European individualism
“The convention by which the...”
– Kenneth Clark, Ch. 5: The Hero as Artist, Civilisation (1969)
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“ “Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal,...”
– Alan Moore, What Is Reality?
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“ “Can I be your memory?” ”
– Sugarcult, their song Memory
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“Mike McRae on educating future critical thinkers
“This fallacy (appeal...”
– Mike McRae, Australian teacher and guest columnist, “Educating Future Critical Thinkers”, Swift: Online Newsletter of the JREF, 31 March 2006.
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“ “Logicians tell us that a system of ideas containing a contradiction can...”
– Steven Pinker’s Introduction to John Brockman, What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today’s Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable (2007), p. xxix
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“Chiaki J. Konaka: “Memories give us the opportunity to prove to ourselves...”
– Chiaki J. Konaka, Japanese writer and scenarist, The Big O
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“ “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination...”
– Albert Einstein, in “What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck” in The Saturday Evening Post (26 October 1929)
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“ “The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable...”
– Daniel Dennett, Consciousness Explained (1991), p. 177.
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“ “Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the...”
– Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception (1954)
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“ “Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process...”
– Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (1990)
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“ “I think chance is a more fundamental conception than causality; for...”
– Max Born, cited in Michael Kaplan, Ellen Kaplan, Chances Are… Adventures in Probability, Penguin Books Ltd, 2007, p. 277. 