August 2011
33 posts
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“ “If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are...”
– Joe Rogan, American comedian
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“ “The core function of the memory system could in fact be to imagine the...”
– Tali Sharot, a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London, Optimism Bias: Human Brain May Be Hardwired for Hope, Time, June 6, 2011 See also: ☞ The Optimism Bias and Memory
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“ “The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation:...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, lecturer, and poet (1803-1882), The Conduct of Life (1860)
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“ “The world’s biggest problem is that not enough people are working on the...”
– Max Marmer, an entrepreneur, writer, philosopher, connector and change addict living in San Francisco, Engagement: the missing ingredient that is now spreading like a virus, January 10, 2011
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“ “If something becomes unimportant to people, it gets scrapped for parts;...”
– 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, The Millennium Clock, Wired Scenarios, 1995
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“ “Is it a fact - or have I dreamt it - that, by means of electricity, the...”
– Nathanial Hawthorne, American novelist and short story writer (1804-1864), The House of the Seven Gables, Chapter 17, (1851)
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“What is the self?
“Within the brain, it seems, the self is both...”
– Anil Ananthaswamy, a consultant editor of New Scientist in London, Existence: What is the self?, New Scientist, 04 August 2011
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“Pico Iyer on traveling
“For if every true love affair can feel like a...”
– Pico Iyer, British-born essayist and novelist, Why We Travel, World Hum, 27 Apr 2009
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“ “Every aspect of almost every culture, from musing to music, from dining...”
– Andrew Potter, Canadian philosopher, author, and magazine columnist, Cultural immersion or imitation?, The New Zealand Herald, May 4, 2010
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“From this hour I ordain myself loos’d of limits and imaginary lines,...”
– Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist and journalist (1819-1892), Song of the Open Road (55) from his 1856 collection Leaves of Grass
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– Rolf Potts, Vagabonding
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“ “Beauty is nature’s way of acting at a distance.” ”
– Denis Dutton, academic, web entrepreneur. He was a professor of philosophy at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, (1944-2010), ☞ Denis Dutton: A Darwinian theory of beauty
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“ “The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice....”
– R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist (1927-1989)
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“ “Simply put, our brain is inherently well suited for some tasks, but ill...”
– Dean Buonomano, professor in the departments of neurobiology and psychology at the University of California at Los Angeles and an investigator at UCLA’s Brain Research Institute, Brain Bugs. How the brain’s flaws shape our lives, W.W. Norton, 2011
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“ “The brain is an incomprehensibly complex biological computer,...”
– Dean Buonomano, professor in the departments of neurobiology and psychology at the University of California at Los Angeles and an investigator at UCLA’s Brain Research Institute, Brain Bugs. How the brain’s flaws shape our lives, W.W. Norton, 2011 See also: ☞ Dean Buonomano on ‘Brain Bugs’...
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“ “Like a parent that carefully filters the information her child is...”
– Dean Buonomano, professor in the departments of neurobiology and psychology at the University of California at Los Angeles and an investigator at UCLA’s Brain Research Institute, Brain Bugs. How the brain’s flaws shape our lives, W.W. Norton, 2011
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“ “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there...”
– 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)
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“Albert Einstein on public education
“It is, in fact, nothing short of a...”
– Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics, Nobel Prize laureate (1879-1955), cited in What Einstein, Twain, and Forty Eight Other Creative People Had to Say About Schooling, Psychology Today, July 26, 2011
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“ “Reality is an intelligent conversation with the universe.” ”
– cited in What Is Reality?, BBC Horizon documentary, 2011
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“ “That is what you want to know - the truth about everything - and then...”
– Buckminster Fuller, American engineer, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist (1895-1983), from Critical Path (1981), St Martin’s Press, NY See also: ☞ The Relativity of Truth - a brief résumé
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“ “The Universe is made of stories, not of atoms.” ”
– Muriel Rukeyser, American poet and political activist (1913-1980), The Speed of Darkness, IX (1968)
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“ “My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World...”
– Neil Gaiman, English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films (tnx crmerry)
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“ “This isn’t about what is,” said Mr. Nancy.
“It’s about what people...”
– Neil Gaiman, English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films, American Gods, William Morrow, 2001
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“ “You’re alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can...”
– Neil Gaiman, English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films, The Graveyard Book, Bloomsbury, 2008
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“ “Humanism is a rational philosophy informed by science, inspired by art,...”
– The Humanist Magazine, a publication of the American Humanist Association
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“ “I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent,...”
– Neil Gaiman, English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films, Neverwhere
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“Joan Chiao: ‘Diversity is Universal’
“At every level in...”
– Joan Chiao, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University, answering the question What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody’s Cognitive Toolkit?, Edge, 2011
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“ “A philosopher once asked, “Are we human because we gaze at the...”
– Neil Gaiman, English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films
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“ “Potentially evil. Potentially good, too, I suppose. Just this huge...”
– Neil Gaiman, English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films, Good Omens, Gollancz, 1990
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“ “It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particularly long to...”
– Neil Gaiman, English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films, Anansi Boys, Morrow, 2005
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“ “What’s your name,’ Coraline asked the cat. ‘Look,...”
– Neil Gaiman, English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films, Coraline, Bloomsbury, 2002
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“Rolf-Dieter Heuer on the limits of human knowledge
“Q: Can something as...”
– Rolf-Dieter Heuer, German particle physicist and the Director General of CERN since 2009, “We Are Crossing the Boundary Between Knowledge and Belief”, The European, 17.05.2011
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“ “Our brains tend to seek out information that confirms our beliefs,...”
– Ronald Bailey, Book Review: The Believing Brain, WSJ, July 27, 2011 (tnx wildcat2030) See also: ☞ Why people believe in strange things
July 2011
61 posts
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“ “The story I told you, as well as the commentaries it inspired, will be...”
– Edmond Jabès, Jewish writer and poet (1912-1991), Mirror and Scarf, from the Book to the Book: An Edmond Jabès Reader, Wesleyan University Press, 1991, trans. Rosmarie Waldrop (tnx proustitute)
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“ “I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in...”
– Marie Curie, Polish physicist–chemist famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity. The first person honored with two Nobel Prizes (1867-1934), cited in Madame Curie: A Biography (1937) by Eve Curie Labouisse, p. 341. 