October 2011
25 posts
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“ “It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of...”
– Douglas R. Hofstadter, American academic whose research focuses on consciousness, analogy-making, discovery in mathematics and physics, Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern, Basic Books, 1985
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“ “Science and art are seen as two very distinct endeavors and I suppose...”
– Fred Wilson is a VC and principal of Union Square Ventures, To Science And Art, Business Insider, June 15, 2011
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“ “Language is the armoury of the human mind; and at once contains the...”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher (1772-1834), Biographia literaria; or, Biographical sketches of my literary life and opinions, Rest Fenner, 1817, p.25 (tnx fast-t-feasts)
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“Iain McGilchrist on how the ‘divided brain’ has profoundly altered human...”
– McGilchrist, psychiatrist and writer, ☞ Iain McGilchrist on The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
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“ “Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.” ”
– Paul Auster, American author known for works blending absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction and the search for identity and personal meaning.
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““Humpty Dumpty: the purest embodiment of the human condition. Listen carefully,...”
– Paul Auster, American author known for works blending absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction and the search for identity and personal meaning, Peter Stillman in the City of Glass, Faber & Faber, 1987
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“ “A man can’t know where he is on the Earth except in relation to the moon...”
– Paul Auster, American author known for works blending absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction and the search for identity and personal meaning, Effing in Moon Palace, Viking Press, 1989
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“ “Thoughts are real’, he said. ‘Words are real. Everything human is...”
– Paul Auster, American author known for works blending absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction and the search for identity and personal meaning, Oracle Night, Henry Holt, 2003
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“ “He who lives for an encounter with the unseen becomes the instrument of the...”
– Paul Auster, American author known for works blending absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction and the search for identity and personal meaning.
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“ “If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.” ”
– Joseph Campbell, American mythologist, writer and lecturer (1904-1987), The Power of Myth, documentary, 1988
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“ “To me the most astounding fact in the universe is the power of mind...”
– Freeman Dyson, British-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum field theory, solid-state physics, astronomy and nuclear engineering, cited in Jason Silva, Beginning of Infinity, 2011
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“ “Some time in the last fifty thousand years, with the invention of...”
– Terence McKenna, Irish-American philosopher, psychonaut, researcher, raconteur, speaker and writer (1946-2000), The Archaic Revival, HarperCollins, 1992
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“Mario Benedetti Táctica y estrategia
Mi táctica es
mirarte
aprender como...”
– Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet, in the Spanish-speaking world he was considered one of Latin America’s most important 20th-century writers (1920-2009), Táctica y estrategia, (1973-1974)
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“Steve Jobs: ‘Death is very likely the single best invention of life’...”
– Steve Jobs, American computer entrepreneur and inventor. He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc, (1955-2011), Steve Jobs: ‘Death is very likely the single best invention of life’, Commencement speech at Stanford University, 2005
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“ “Q: One of my favorite definitions of time is that time is what stops...”
– Brian Eno, English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music, in conversation with the novelist David Mitchell, Brian Eno: Success ruins artists, Salon.com, Oct 1, 2011
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“ “What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in...”
– M. C. Escher, Dutch graphic artist. He is known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints (1898-1972)
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“Human Evolution: No Easy Fix
“We may be doomed as a species precisely...”
– Ariel Fernandez, Argentinian-American physical chemist who held the Karl F. Hasselmann Professorship of Bioengineering at Rice University, Human Evolution: No Easy Fix, Project Syndicate, 3 Oct 2011
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“ “It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at...”
– M. C. Escher, Dutch graphic artist. He is known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints (1898-1972), On Being a Graphic Artist
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“The result of the struggle between the thought and the ability to...”
– M. C. Escher, Dutch graphic artist. He is known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints (1898-1972), On Being a Graphic Artis (Illustration: M C Escher at Work)
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“Turtles Upon Turtles: Turtles All the Way Down
“A well-known scientist...”
– Wiki (tnx turtlesuponturtles) (Illustration source)
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“ “Home is not where you live, but where they understand you.” ”
– Christian Morganstern, German author and poet (1871-1914)
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“ “What the web has inspired, then, is a postmodern understanding of what...”
– Aleks Krotoski, American broadcaster and journalist, Home: how the internet has changed our concept of what home is, The Observer, 2 Oct 2011 (tnx wildcat2030)
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“ “Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively...”
– David Eagleman, neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine, where he directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action and the Initiative on Neuroscience and Law, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, Pantheon Books, 2011 (tnx johnsparker)
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“David Eagleman on Time and the Brain
“Clocks offer at best a convenient...”
– David Eagleman, neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine, where he directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action and the Initiative on Neuroscience and Law, paraphrased by Burkhard Bilger, The Possibilian, The New Yorker, Aprill 25, 2011
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“ “Beauty is a particularly potent and intense form of curiosity. It’s a...”
– Jonah Lehrer, American journalist who writes on the topics of psychology, neuroscience, and the relationship between science and the humanities, ☞ Why Does Beauty Exist?, Wired science, July 18, 2011 