May 2012
25 posts
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“Inside a mathematical proof lies literature. Some of the greatest mathematicians...”
– Reviel Netz, Professor of Classics and Philosophy at Stanford University, Inside a mathematical proof lies literature, says Stanford’s Reviel Netz, Stanford University Report, May 7, 2012. See also: ☞ Oulipo - a group of writers interested in exploring the application of mathematical...
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“ “The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s must be...”
– G. H. Hardy, was a prominent English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis (1877-1947), A Mathematician’s Apology (1941)
April 2012
19 posts
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“ “Culture does leave its signature in the circuitry of the individual...”
– David Eagleman, neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine, where he directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action, bestselling author, ☞ David Eagleman on how we constructs reality, time perception, and The Secret Lives of the Brain, Lapidarium notes, The Observer, 29 April 2012.
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“ “We won’t experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century—it will be...”
– Ray Kurzweil, American author, scientist, inventor and futurist, The Law of Accelerating Returns, KurzweilAI, March 7, 2001. See also: ☞ Waking Life. Eamonn Healy speaks about telescopic evolution and the future of humanity
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“Theodor W. Adorno: ‘There is no element in which language resembles music...”
– Theodor W. Adorno, German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for his critical theory of society (1903-1969), Punctuation marks (pdf) (Illustration)
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“ “Don’t tell me the sky is the limit when there are footprints on...”
– Paul Brandt, Canadian country music artist in a song There’s A World Out There
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“ “Probably 99.999 percent of what goes on in the brain is automatic and...”
– Michael Gazzaniga, professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he heads the new SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind, cited in Can we have free will, if the brain’s actions are automatic? A scholar makes the case, Capital New York, Apr 13, 2012.
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“ “Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence. The...”
– Max Picard, Swiss writer, important as one of the few thinkers writing from a deeply Platonic sensibility in the 20th century, The world of silence, H. Regnery, 1952, p. 221.
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“ “As fiendish little gadgets conspire to track our movements and record...”
– Maureen Dowd, Silence Is Golden, NYT, Dec 6, 2011. (Picture: Illustration of silence) See also: ☞ William Deresiewicz on solitude
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“ “Memories are becoming hyperlinks to information triggered by keywords...”
– Amber Case, cyberanthropologist and CEO of Geoloqi, cited in Enterprise Efficiency - David Wagner - Education’s ‘Must Teach’ for the 21st Century (tnx Wildcat)
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“ “The cognitive revolution of the past thirty years provides a different...”
– David Brooks, journalist, a political and cultural commentator, Social Animal, The New Yorker, 17 Jan 2011
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Mono-no-aware means literally “the pathos of things”, also...”
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“ “At some time in the history of the universe, there were no human minds,...”
– David Berlinski, American author, a Senior Fellow of the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, On the Origins of the Mind (pdf), Discovery Institute, 2004
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“ “At the end of his life, Rousseau acknowledged that it was not nearly so...”
– James Miller, Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche,Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011 cited in Philosophy as Inspiration. The consolations of understanding, The Economist, 27 Jan 2011
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“ “Whenever I tackled the impossible or the miraculous, I remembered the...”
– Philippe Petit, French high-wire artist who gained fame for his high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, New York, on 7 August 1974, Man on Wire, Skyhorse Publishing, 2002, p. 236.
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“ “The internet makes dumb people dumber and smart people smarter....”
– Kevin Drum, American political blogger and columnist, The Internet Is a Major Driver of the Growth of Cognitive Inequality, Mother Jones, Feb 17, 2012
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“ “Love is the only rational act.” ”
– Mitch Albom, American writer, Tuesdays with Morrie, Random House, 1997, p. 52.
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“ “Each of us sees the world with the eyes he possess, and eyes see what...”
– Jose Saramago, Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, poet, playwright and journalist (1922-2010), The Stone Raft, Mariner Books, 1996.
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“ “A story has no beginning or end; arbitrarily one chooses that moment of...”
– Graham Greene, English author, playwright and literary critic (1904-1991), The End of the Affair, Heinemann, 1974, p. 1.
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“ “According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling...”
– Brian Greene, American theoretical physicist and string theorist, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality, Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. 