June 2011
36 posts
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“Kevin Kelly: ‘We are moving from the culture of the book to the culture of...”
– Kevin Kelly, writer, the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog, Post-Artifact Booking, The Technium, 19 June 2011
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“ “Love requires the activation of neural circuits that facilitate...”
– Semir Zeki, professor of neuroesthetics at University College London, 2007, source See also: ☞ Andreas Bartels and Semir Zeki, The neural basis of romantic love (pdf) ☞ The neural correlates of maternal and romantic love (pdf), Department of Cognitive Neurology, University College London
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“ “All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.” ”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, American lecturer, essayist and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century (1803-1882)
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“‘Disobedience was man’s Original Virtue’
“Every fact of...”
– Robert Anton Wilson, American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, futurist, civil libertarian (1932-2007)
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“‘We stand on the shoulders of cultural giants’
“In even the...”
– Razib Khan, We stand on the shoulders of cultural giants, Discover Magazine, June 21st, 2011 ☞ See also: The Kaleidoscopic Discovery Engine. ‘All scientific discoveries are in principle ‘multiples’’
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“ “The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is...”
– Peter Drucker, writer, management consultant, and self-described “social ecologist.” (1909-2005)
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“‘We are information experiencing information. Human are anti-entropic...”
– Kevin Kelly, the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog, cited in Jason Silva, We are information experiencing information: an experimental essay in “Intertwingularity”, Big Think, June 4, 2011.
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“ “Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to...”
– Mouse-over text at xkcd, 22 June 2011
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“William Deresiewicz: ‘We live at a time when friendship has become both...”
– William Deresiewicz, formerly an associate professor of English at Yale University, is a widely published literary critic, ☞ William Deresiewicz on the meaning of friendship in our time See also: ☞ Dunbar’s Number: Why We Can’t Have More Than 150 Friends
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“ “Physics is a form of insight, and as such, it’s a form of...”
– David Bohm, American-born British quantum physicist who made contributions in the fields of theoretical physics, philosophy and neuropsychology, and to the Manhattan Project (1917-1992) cited in Image and Insight:The Integration of Art and Physics
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“For man loves knowledge, and the beams of Truth
More welcome touch his...”
– Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (1720-1771), The Pleasures of the Imagination (1744) (excerpt) cited in The Poems Of Mark Akenside, London: W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1772. Reprint Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Full-Text Database: Cambridge, 1992, Bk. II, ll. 97-120, p. 50-1.
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‘Cybernetics are the stuff of which the world is made. Matter is simply frozen information’ — Timothy Leary, American psychologist and writer (1920-1996), Pataphysics Magazine (1990), ☞ See also: Timothy Leary on cybernetics and a new global culture
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“ “Has it ever struck you… that life is all memory, except for the one present...”
– Tennessee Williams, American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater (1911-1983), The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore cited in Michael Chorost, World Wide Mind (tnx johnsparker)
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“Nicholas Humphrey on consciousness
“We have been seeking evidence of how,...”
– Nicholas Humphrey, English psychologist, former professor at the London School of Economics, Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness , Princeton University Press, 2011 (tnx johnsparker)
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“ “I knew this would happen to me.” ”
– George Bernard Shaw’s epitaph on his grave, Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics (1856-1950), cited in Vlatko Vedral, Decoding Reality: the universe as quantum information, Oxford University Press, 2010
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“Vlatko Vedral on Information, Universe and natural laws
“Everything in our...”
– Vlatko Vedral, Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and CQT (Centre for Quantum Technologies) at the National University of Singapore, ☞ Vlatko Vedral: Decoding Reality: the universe as quantum information, Oxford University Press, 2010, p. 23, 211-218.
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“ “It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to...”
– Ayn Rand, Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter (1905-1982), Atlas Shrugged, Random House, 1957
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“Ayn Rand on individualism and productive life
“Productiveness is your...”
– Ayn Rand, Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter (1905-1982), Atlas Shrugged, Random House, 1957
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“ “Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the...”
– Ayn Rand, Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter (1905-1982), Atlas Shrugged, Random House, 1957
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“ “Those who conquered all science and letters,
And shone as beacons among...”
– Omar Khayyám, Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and poet (1048–1131) cited in Vlatko Vedral, Decoding Reality: the universe as quantum information, Oxford University Press, 2010, p. 23. 