The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
-- Stephen Jay Gould
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Learning is the one perfect religion, its path correct, narrow, certain, straight.
-- Elizabeth Alexander (Crave Radiance)
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Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.
-- Mary Oliver
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
-- W. H. Auden
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Distracted driving is an acute symptom of a wider problem: distracted living.
-- Tim Harford
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People seldom know what they want until you give them what they ask for.
-- Donald Gause & Gerald Weinberg (Are Your Lights On?)
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At its best the technological model of learning is inspired by visions of facts and information. Its enthusiasts assume that the world will improve if more people have easier access to knowledge. Is the problem the availability of knowledge, however? Will additional information alter the nature of learning? Or is something else missing, a desire to learn and imagine? Do we lack facts or comprehension, the ability to think about information? American culture has always tilted toward amassing facts. Yet the delivery of information progresses, while social relations regress.
-- Russell Jacoby (Utopia)
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The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology.
-- Edward O. Wilson
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I've found it!), but "That's funny...".
-- Isaac Asimov
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Too much [central] control freezes the system into limited configurations; too little causes it to wander aimlessly. Only systems that hover on the border between order and chaos exhibit the needed general stability and capacity to explore the universe of possible solutions to challenges.
-- Stuart A. Kauffman (Sciam (Nov 2006))
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True understanding and intelligence depend upon an individual's ability to turn an idea around in the brain and verbalize (or write) it clearly.... The human mind is a synthetic instrument.
-- Frank Reuter
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You, who are the father of letters...have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant.
-- Socrates (addressing the Egyptian god Thoth)
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Nature wants five of your seven children dead. It wants you dead by fifty. Everything better than that is brought to you by science and technology.
-- David Frum (@davidfrum)
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Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
-- William Strunk Jr.
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The greatest cost of the specialization of technological life -- and out of which all other damages are birthed -- is arguably our separation from the practical and enriching sense of ourselves as embodied beings. When we are alienated from the wisdom of the body, our lives become theoretical and abstract, and we are distanced from the direct, felt sense of living.
-- Richard Strozzi-Heckler
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If the compounding increase in technology once gave the advantage to the settled, a line has been crossed. Now the advantage can go to those who are returning to the nomadic way of life for which humans were originally designed.
-- Joel Garreau
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
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