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The Observer Effect (1920s): The observer, attempting a measurement, alters what he’s measuring.

David Shields • How We Got Here: Melville Plus Nietzsche Divided by the Square Root of (Allan) Bloom Times Žižek (Squared) Equals Bannon

Life has a way of talking to the future. It’s called memory. It’s called genes. To solve the future, we must save the past.

Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel

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Sean M. Carroll • The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion

In the 1970s, Austrian astrophysicist Erich Jantsch argued that these same basic principles underlie the regularities of social existence too, up to and including the cultural symbol systems used by humans to encode meaningful information and guide our behavior.7 Today, quantum information theory, discussed in the last chapter, is also being applie

Eric Wargo • Time Loops

Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!, the most-gifted book of several people in this book, as well as in a wonderful short documentary called The Pleasure of Finding Things Out.

Timothy Ferriss • Tools Of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

“Most or all of what I do takes off from looking at the description of the world we have… like an art critic—saying, how could this have been better? And then trying to improve the equations …to explain things that don’t seem to fit,” he says. “Aesthetic guidance has been very crucial in trying to formulate new laws—and sometimes it’s worked.”

Gabriel Popkin • The Universe According to Frank Wilczek - John Templeton Foundation

For reasons we don’t yet understand, the tendency to synchronize is one of the most pervasive drives in the universe, extending from atoms to animals, from people to planets.

Steven H. Strogatz • Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos In the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life

In economics the particles, that is, agents, are endowed with some kind of foresight. Their image of the future affects the present.

Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)

The particle of her private self rejoins everything it has been split off from—the plan of runaway green. I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.