February 2011
108 posts
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“ “Art is nature as seen through a temperament.” ”
– Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French landscape painter and printmaker in etching (1796-1875)
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“ “Religiosity started as a combination of human traits as especially...”
– Jesse Bering cited in Michael Blume’s The God Instinct - by Jesse Bering book review, SciLogs, Dec 7, 2010
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“ “The alphabet was civilization’s first abstract art form. As the actual...”
– Leonard Shlain, Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light, New York: Harper Perennial, 1991. 2007 (tnx carvalhais)
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“Leonard Shlain on Art
“If the artists’ work is truly the apparition of...”
– Leonard Shlain, Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light, New York: Harper Perennial, 1991. 2007
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“Leonard Shlain on the integration of Art and Physics
“Revolutionary art...”
– Leonard Shlain, Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light, New York: Harper Perennial, 1991. 2007
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“ “To develop craft, strategy, language, logic, and arithmetic the mind...”
– Leonard Shlain, Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light, New York: Harper Perennial, 1991. 2007 (tnx carvalhais)
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“ Leonard Shlain on evolution and a sense of time
“The evolution o...”
– Leonard Shlain, Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light, New York: Harper Perennial, 1991. 2007 (tnx carvalhais)
See also: ☞ The Experience and Perception of Time, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ☞ Time tag on Lapidarium
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“ “We have to live today by what truth we can get today, and be ready...”
– William James cited in Frederick Grinnell, Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic, OUP USA, 2009
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“ “Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute...”
– Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist (1825-1895)
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““Nobel Laureate Albert Szent-Györgyi’s prescription for discovery was...”
– Frederick Grinnell, Everyday Practice of Science: Where Intuition and Passion Meet Objectivity and Logic, Chapter 3, “Credibility: Validating Discovery Claims”, OUP USA, 2009
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“ “I’ve always known that the quality of love was the mind, even...”
– Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
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“ “The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the...”
– Ray Bradbury, American fantasy, horror, science fiction writer
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“The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it
But the way those...”
– Carl Sagan, Symphony of Science - ‘We Are All Connected’
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“Paul Grobstein on science as story telling and story revising
William Blake,...”
– Paul Grobstein (Department of Biology and Center for Science in Society, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA), Revisiting Science in Culture: Science as Story Telling and Story Revising, Volume 1, Issue 1, Article M1, 2005, See also: What IS Science? or Science as Story-Telling or...
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“ “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under...”
– Jack Kerouac, On The Road, Viking Press, 1957
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“ “I’m interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the...”
– Ray Bradbury, American fantasy, horror, science fiction writer
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“ “He had more books than I’ve ever seen in all my life - two libraries,...”
– Jack Keroauc, On The Road, Viking Press, 1957, Chapter 4
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“Ray Bradbury on writing
“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only...”
– Ray Bradbury
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“ “Out in the world not much happened. But here in the special night, a...”
– Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes/Sound of Thunder
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“ “I don’t talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things. I sit here...”
– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, Ballantine Books, 1953
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“Eric Schwitzgebel on task and the limits of human philosophical cognition
...”
– Eric Schwitzgebel, The Wason Selection Task and the Limits of Human Philosophical Cognition, The Splintered Mind, Feb 16, 2011 (via wildcat2030)
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“ “The real information gap in the twenty-first century is not who has...”
– Bill Kovach, Tom Rosenstiel, Blur: How to Know What’s True in the Age of Information Overload, Bloomsbury USA, 2010 (via wildcat2030)
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“ “We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life’s...”
– Bill Bryson
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“ “The world around us pelts our nerve endings with light rays and molecules,...”
– Willard Van Orman Quine, professor of philosophy and logician in the analytic tradition (tnx kevinlepore)
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“ “Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science,...”
– Ray Bradbury, American fantasy, horror, science fiction writer
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“ “Creativity is a continual surprise.” ”
– Ray Bradbury, American fantasy, horror, science fiction writer
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“ “You’ll find out it’s little savors and little things that count more...”
– Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
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“ “Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I...”
– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, Ballantine Books, 1953
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“ “They walked still farther and the girl said, “Is it true that long...”
– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, Ballantine Books, 1953
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“ “I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.” ”
– Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes - The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone, 1903
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“ “The actual science of logic is conversant at present only with things...”
– James Clerk Maxwell (1850), cited in Edwin Thompson Jaynes, Probability Theory: the Logic of Science, 1994
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“ “Common language (or at least, the English language) has an almost...”
– Edwin Thompson Jaynes, Probability Theory: the Logic of Science, 1994
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“ “Pattern is everywhere, its just waiting to happen.” ”
– Andrea Sella, chemist at UCL
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“ “Science is the only news. When you scan through a newspaper or magazine,...”
– Stewart Brand, American writer, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, Whole Earth Discipline: an Ecopragmatist Manifesto, Viking Adult, 2009
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“ “Science is the modern art of creating stories that explain observations...”
– B. R. Bickmore, D. A. Grandy, Science as Storytelling, Brigham Young University, 2005
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“B. R. Bickmore, D. A. Grandy on Science as Storytelling
“The difference...”
– B. R. Bickmore, D. A. Grandy, Science as Storytelling, Brigham Young University, 2005
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“ “The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of...”
– Edward O. Wilson, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, Knopf, 1998
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“Richard Feynman and Jirayr Zorthian on science, art and beauty Richard P....”
– Richard P. Feynman and Jirayr Zorthian, BBC series Horizon, the episode is called “No Ordinary Genius”, originally aired in 1993
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“ “Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct...”
– Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor (1881-1973)
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“ “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” ”
– John Maynard Keynes, British economist (1883-1946)
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“Mark Changizi on Humans, Version 3.0.
The next giant leap in human evolution...”
– Mark Changizi (cognitive scientist, author), Humans, Version 3.0., SEED.com, Feb 23, 2011 See also: Prof. Stanislas Dehaene, “How do humans acquire novel cultural skills? The neuronal recycling model”, LSE Institute | Nicod, (Picture source: Rzeczpospolita)
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“Bertrand Russell’s message to future generations
— What would you...”
– BBC’s Face to Face interview of Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature (1872-1970), in 1959. See also: ☞ The Three Passions of Bertrand Russell: Love, Truth, and Justice
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“ “The future is uncertain… this uncertainty is at the very heart of...”
– Ilya Prigogine, physical chemist and Nobel Laureate noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems, and irreversibility (1917-2003)
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“ “Our ideas are not ideas about reality – they are a part of reality. We...”
– Jeff Carreira, Are We On the Outside of the Universe Looking In?, Feb 17, 2011 (tnx johnsparker)
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“ “Vincitore è l’uomo che non ha rinunciato ai propri sogni.” ”
– Nelson Mandela
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“ “Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology,...”
– Paola Antonelli, A Conversation About The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, Wired, Jan 2001
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“Freeman Dyson on James Gleick’s “The Information: A History, a...”
– Freeman Dyson, British-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum field theory, solid-state physics, astronomy and nuclear engineering, How We Know, The New York Review of Books
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“Kevin Kelly: “Is technology a part of us? Or are we a part of a larger...”
– Kevin Kelly, writer, the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog, What Technology Wants, New York: Viking, The Penguin Group, 2010
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“Björn Brembs on the brain and free will
“Determinism in the fundamental...”
– Björn Brembs, neuroscientist (tnx sandygautam)
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“ “If technology is an extension of humans, it is not an extension of our genes...”
– Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants, Penguin Group, New York, 2010 