July 2011
61 posts
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“ “Now, a symbol is not, properly speaking, either true or false; it is,...”
– Pierre Duhem, French physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science, best known for his writings on the indeterminacy of experimental criteria and on scientific development in the Middle Ages (1861-1916), The aim and structure of physical theory, Princeton University Press, 1991 p. 168.
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“ “Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a...”
– Frederick Seitz, American physicist and a pioneer of solid state physics, former president of Rockefeller University, and president of the United States National Academy of Sciences, A Conversation with Dr. Frederick Seitz, George C. Marshall Institute, Sep 3, 1997.
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“Syd Mead on the meaning of the words ‘natural’ vs...”
– Syd Mead, a “visual futurist” and concept artist, Future Concepts: The World of Syd Mead, p.15, cited in Car Styling Magazine 088, May 1992 (tnx wildcat2030)
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“ “You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.” ”
– John Green, American author, An Abundance of Katherines ☞ See also: Daniel Kahneman on the riddle of experience vs. memory
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“ “Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that...”
– Cicero, Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist (106 BC – 43 BC) (tnx wildcat2030)
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“Nicholas Ostler on The Last Lingua Franca
“Lingua-francas are the...”
– Nicholas Ostler, British scholar and author. Ostler studied at Balliol College, Oxford, where he received degrees in Greek, Latin, philosophy, and economics. He later studied under Noam Chomsky at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned his Ph.D. in linguistics and Sanskrit,...
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“ “The book of the past reveals its individual experience uniquely. The...”
– Craig Mod, writer, designer, publisher and developer, Post-Artifact Books and Publishing, June 2011
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“ “Roger Bacon held that three classes of substance were capable of magic:...”
– Matthew Battles, writer, a book critic, and the cofounder of HiLobrow.com, Library: An Unquiet History, W. W. Norton & Company, 2004
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“ “When we are headed the wrong way, the last thing we need is progress.” ”
– Nick Bostrom, Swedish philosopher known for his work on existential risk and the anthropic principle. The director of The Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, “Perfection Is Not A Useful Concept”, The European Magazine, 13.06.2011
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“
With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world’s great...”
– Arthur O’Shaughnessy, British poet, born in London to Irish parents (1844-1881), Ode from his book Music and Moonlight (1874), (full text)
June 2011
36 posts
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“ “If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but...”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher, mathematician, logician, who held the professorship in philosophy at the University of Cambridge (1889-1951), Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 5.4311, Cosimo, Inc., 2007, p. 106.
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“ “Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it...”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher, mathematician, logician, who held the professorship in philosophy at the University of Cambridge (1889-1951) See also: Jorinde Voigt’s illustrations
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“ “There are only two ways we know of to make extremely complicated things,...”
– Danny Hillis, American inventor, entrepreneur, and author. He co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation, a company that developed the Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer designed by Hillis at MIT, cited in Kevin Kelly, Out of Control The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the...
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“Gretel Ehrlich on wildness and life
“Gretel Ehrlich writes in her lyrical...”
– Gretel Ehrlich, American travel writer, poet, and essayist, cited in Kevin Kelly, Out of Control The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World, (2004), Illustrated Edition 2008, p. 98.
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“ “The old computing is about what computers can do, the new computing is...”
– Ben Shneiderman, American computer scientist, and professor for Computer Science at the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland
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“Freeman Dyson: ‘It appears to me that the tendency of mind to infiltrate...”
– Freeman Dyson, British-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum field theory, solid-state physics, astronomy and nuclear engineering, Infinite in All Directions, cited in Kevin Kelly, Out of Control The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the...
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“ “It is very likely that intelligence, at bottom, is a probabilistic or...”
– Kevin Kelly, writer, the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog, Out of Control The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World, (2004), Illustrated Edition 2008, p. 43.
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“Daniel Dennett: ‘The thing about brains is that when you look in them, you...”
– Daniel Dennett, American philosopher, writer and cognitive scientist, cited in Kevin Kelly, Out of Control The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World, (2004), Illustrated Edition 2008, p. 42-43. See also: Daniel Dennett on consciousness
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“ “I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.” ”
– Max Born, German-born physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics, Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (1882-1970) cited in Pim Van Lommel, Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience, (tnx johnsparker)
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“The Neurobiology of “We”. Relationship is the flow of energy and information...”
– Patty de Llosa, author, ☞ The Neurobiology of “We”, Parabola Magazine, 2011, Daniel Siegel, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center. 