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Fierce insistence on the felicitous expression of nature in human nature, with our capacity for music and mathematics, for art and hope.
A century after Virginia Woolf was staggered in her garden into her timelessly stunning insight that “behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern… the whole world is a work of art… there is no Shakespeare… no Beethoven… no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself” — Hodges considers the elemental truth pulsating beneath our e... See more
Maria Popova • We Are Made of Music, We Are Made of Time: Violinist Natalie Hodges on the Poetic Science of Sound and Feeling
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Richard P. Feynman, “What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character” (1989)
Michael Nielsen • Augmenting Long-Term Memory
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In four billion years, our own star will follow its fate, collapsing into a white dwarf. We exist only by chance, after all. The Voyager will still be sailing into the interstellar shorelessness on the wings of the “heavenly breezes” Kepler had once imagined, carrying Beethoven on a golden disc crafted by a symphonic civilization that long ago made... See more
Maria Popova • Figuring
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We Are Made of Music, We Are Made of Time: Violinist Natalie Hodges on the Poetic Science of Sound and Feeling
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Aren’t we all still quivering
like tuning forks
with the shock of being,
the shock of being seen?
like tuning forks
with the shock of being,
the shock of being seen?
Hannah Fries • Let the Last Thing Be Song
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LET THE LAST THING BE SONG
by Hannah Fries