Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves; it describes nature as exposed to our nature of questioning.
~ Werner Heisenberg
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Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
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The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns whence he came.
~ Umberto Eco
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Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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Much of human progress has involved reducing the time and energy and the number of processes to obtain the necessities of life. In the past few decades however, that long process of simplifying and bundling economic offerings has been reversed. Increasingly, the trend has moved back toward time-consuming foraging behavior.
~ Barry Schwartz
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Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
~ Blaise Pascal
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Good design is unobtrusive.
~ Dieter Rams
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The best Russian realist conflicts with the realism of Courbet. The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissaro.
~ Marc Chagall
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Ideologies capable of influencing and winning the acceptance of great masses of people are an indispensable verbal cement holding the fabric of any given type of society together.
~ James Burnham
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Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.
~ Dean Acheson
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The value of land appreciates because of the work society does around it: the network effects of the companies operating around a piece of land, the public transportation that makes it accessible, and the nearby restaurants, coffeeshops, and access to nature that makes it desirable. Because the landowner didn’t do all that work, it’s fair for that value to be shared with the larger society that did.
~ Sam Altman
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