April 2011
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“Isaac Asimov on The Relativity of Wrong
“John, when people thought the...”
– Isaac Asimov, American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University (1920-1992), The Relativity of Wrong ☞ See also: The Relativity of Truth - a brief résumé
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“ “All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers… Each one...”
– François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, French archbishop and author (1651 - 1715) in Dialogue des Morts, “Socrate et Alcibiade” (tnx mohandasgandhi)
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“ “Call them the “weapons of mass collaboration.” These changes, among...”
– Don Tapscott, Canadian business executive, author, consultant and speaker, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, Portfolio, 2006, cited in Collaboration in the Cloud - How Cross-Boundary Collaboration is Transforming Business (pdf), Microsoft and Sogeti, 2009, p.37. ☞ The Rise of...
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“ “We might already be beyond the age of speed, by moving into the age of...”
– Ivan Illich, Austrian philosopher (1926-2002), (1996) cited in Collaboration in the Cloud - How Cross-Boundary Collaboration is Transforming Business (pdf), Microsoft and Sogeti, 2009, p.60.
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“ “What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention...”
– Herbert Simon, American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist, and professor—most notably at Carnegie Mellon University (1916-2001) cited in Collaboration in the Cloud - How Cross-Boundary Collaboration is Transforming Business (pdf), Microsoft and Sogeti, 2009, p.3.
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“ “No, sir. The Americans have need of the telephone – but we do not. We have...”
– Sir William Preece, Chief Engineer Of The British Post Office, 1876
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“Isaac Asimov on Faith and Reason
“If you can’t go by reason, what...”
– Isaac Asimov, American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books (1920-1992), Bill Moyers interviewed author Isaac Asimov, World of Ideas, PBS, 1988. ☞ See also: Isaac Asimov predicted the Internet of...
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“Isaac Asimov on dignity Q: What happens to the idea of the dignity of the human...”
– Isaac Asimov, American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books (1920-1992), Bill Moyers interviewed author Isaac Asimov, World of Ideas, PBS, 1988.
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“ “Let you alone! That’s all very well, but how can I leave myself alone?...”
– Ray Bradbury, American writer, Fahrenheit 451, Ballantine Books, 1953
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“ “We have turned [our friends] into an indiscriminate mass, a kind of audience...”
– William Deresiewicz, formerly an associate professor of English at Yale University, is a widely published literary critic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, cited in Charles Petersen, In the World of Facebook, The New York Review of Books, Feb 25, 2010.
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“ “I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Jewish-American author, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Houghton Mifflin, 2005
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“ “We must also always remember that our minds are dynamically evolving...”
– Martine Rothblatt, American lawyer, author, and entrepreneur, PhD, Can We Develop and Test Machine Minds and Uploads Ethically?, IEET, Apr 24, 2011.
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“ “We are all curious collages, weird little planetoids that grow by...”
– Douglas Hofstadter, American academic whose research focuses on consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics, cited in Martine Rothblatt, Can We Develop and Test Machine Minds and Uploads Ethically?, IEET, Apr 24, 2011.
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“ “When the answer cannot be put into words, neither can the question be put into...”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher who held the professorship in philosophy at the University of Cambridge (1939-1947), known for having inspired two of the century’s principal philosophical movements, logical positivism and ordinary language philosophy, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus,...
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“D.T. Suzuki:
“That is to say, the question is answered only when it is no...”
– D.T. Suzuki, Japanese author (1870-1966), cited in Ken Wilber, The spectrum of consciousness, Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 2002, p.325.
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“Richard Dawkins on information
“What lies at the heart of every living...”
– Richard Dawkins, British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1986) cited in James Gleick, What Defines a Meme?, Smithsonian Magazine, May 2011.
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“ “In the beginning there was information. The word came later. (…)
The...”
– Fred Dretske, philosopher noted for his contributions to epistemology and the philosophy of mind, cited in James Gleick, What Defines a Meme?, Smithsonian Magazine, May 2011.
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“ “A work of art is a unique result of a unique temperament” ”
– Oscar Wilde, Irish writer and poet (1854-1900)
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“ “And once you take on board the idea that mathematics itself can, through...”
– Brian Greene, American theoretical physicist and string theorist, professor at Columbia University, The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos, Knopf, 2011 (tnx johnsparker)
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“ “The same mathematics of networks that governs the interactions of molecules in...”
– James Fowler is a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, answering the question “If you only had a single statement to pass on to others summarizing the most vital lesson to be drawn from your work, what would it be?” in Starting Over, SEED, Aprill 22, 2011.
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“ “Humans have a tendency to fall prey to the illusion that their economy...”
– Carl Folke is the science director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University, Starting Over, SEED, Aprill 22, 2011. ☞ See also: Anthropocene: “the recent age of man”, The Economist
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“Richard Feynman: “If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be...”
– Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Laureate in Physics (1918-1988), in Lectures on Physics cited in Starting Over, SEED, Aprill 22, 2011.
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“Werner Herzog: “When you speak about forgotten dreams, you know,...”
– Werner Herzog, German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and opera director and American novelist, playwright Cormac McCarthy, Connecting Science and Art, NPR, April 8, 2011.
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“Carl G. Jung on life
“Life has always seemed to me like a plant that...”
– Carl G. Jung, Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of Analytical Psychology (1875-1961), Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Pantheon Books, 1963
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“Carl G. Jung on archetypes and “collective unconscious”
“A...”
– Carl G. Jung, Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of Analytical Psychology (1875-1961), The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, 1934, p.3-4, 42-43, 48.
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“ “If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he...”
– Robert G. Ingersoll, a Civil War veteran, American political leader, and orator (1833-1899)
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“ “Language is the formative organ of thought. Intellectual activity,...”
– Wilhelm von Humboldt, German philosopher, government functionary, diplomat. He is especially remembered as a linguist who made important contributions to the philosophy of language and to the theory and practice of education, cited in Brian Skotko, Relationship Between Language and Thought from a...
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“ “The human brain is the only object in the known universe that can predict its...”
– Dan Gilbert, Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He is a social psychologist who is known for his research (with Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia) on affective forecasting, with a special emphasis on cognitive biases such as the impact bias (tnx krestinaholodov)
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“Werner Herzog and Lawrence Krauss on Connecting Science and Art
Science and...”
– Connecting Science and Art, NPR, April 8, 2011. (Illustration source: The Convergence of Arts and Science, Jay Belmore Designs) See also: ☞ Lawrence Krauss: “You are all stardust” ☞ Lawrence Krauss on understanding the universe ☞ Lawrence Krauss on probability and the Universe ☞ Art and Science...
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“Lawrence Krauss and Werner Herzog on the future of man
Werner Herzog:...”
– Lawrence Krauss, American Theoretical Physicist, Werner Herzog, German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and opera director, Connecting Science and Art, NPR, April 8, 2011.
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“ “The sad, beautiful fact that (…) statistically speaking, you will...”
– Linda Holmes, entertainment and pop-culture journalist, The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We’re All Going To Miss Almost Everything, NPR, Apr 18, 2011.
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“ “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make...”
– Alan Watts, British philosopher, writer, and speaker (1915-1973) (tnx parkstepp)
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“ “Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and...”
– Ben Shneiderman, American computer scientist, and professor for Computer Science at the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland, College Park (tnx wildcat2030)
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“ “Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be...”
– Charles Van Doren, American intellectual, writer, and editor, Wikipedia not safe for work, if: book
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“David Eagleman: Your brain creates your sense of self, incognito
“Who...”
– 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. See also: ☞ Your brain creates your sense of self, incognito,...
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“Audaces fortuna iuvat.
— Fortune favors the bold.”
– Virgil, classical Roman poet (70 BC – 19 BC) Aeneid X.284
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“ “The things in life we love most — including life itself — are infinite...”
– 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. (tnx carvalhais)
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“ “The human brain has evolved to be very efficient at pattern recognition,...”
– Leonard Mlodinow, physicist and author, The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives, New York: vintage Books, 2008. (tnx carvalhais)
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“ “There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when...”
– Leonardo da Vinci, Italian polymath; painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer (1452-1519)
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“David Eagleman on the conscious mind
“What Freud intuited and...”
– 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, p.6, 12. (Illustration source)
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“Sanjoy Mahajan on How Richard Feynman Thought
“If we were perfect...”
– Sanjoy Mahajan, theoretical physicist, PhD, Associate Director at the Teaching and Learning Laboratory at MIT, How Richard Feynman Thought, Freakonomics, April 8, 2011.
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“ “Philosophy studies the fundamental nature of existence, of man, and of man’s...”
– Ayn Rand, Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter (1905-1982)
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“ “Today, if we could somehow visit our ancient ancestors and show them the...”
– Michio Kaku, Japanese American physicist, the Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics in the City College of New York of City University of New York, The Introduction to my Newly Released Book, Physics of the Future!, Big Think, March 16, 2011. (tnx wildcat2030)
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“For spirits and men by dierent standards mete
The less and greater in the flow...”
– John Henry Newman (1801-1890), The Dream of Gerontius
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“Bob Root-Bernstein on a combination of art and science
“Almost all Nobel...”
– Bob Root-Bernstein, Ph. D., professor of physiology at Michigan State University and MacArthur Fellow, The Art of Scientific and Technological Innovations, National Geographic, April 11, 2011.
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“ “Here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another at fifteen,...”
– H. G. Wells, English author (1866-1946), The Time Machine cited in A. S. Eddington, Space time and Gravitation (pdf), Cambridge University Press, 1920, p.41.
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“Hippolyta: This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard. Theseus: The best in...”
– William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist (1564-1616), A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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“ “The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the...”
– Terence McKenna, American writer mainly on the subject of psychedelic drugs and their role in society (1946-2000)
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“Parable of the blind men and elephant (the manifold nature of truth)
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– The ancient Jain texts. Two of the many references to this parable are found in Tattvarthaslokavatika of Vidyanandi (9th century) and Syādvādamanjari of Ācārya Mallisena (13th century). See also: ☞ Anekantavada ☞ Cognition / relativity tag on Lapidarium
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“Alan Dean on qualia
“Despite the fact that the structures of the brain...”
– Alan Dean, lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Hull, Chaos and Intoxication, Routledge, 1997. 