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The physicist—like the poet—should not describe the facts of the world, but rather generate metaphors and mental connections.
Benjamin Labatut • When We Cease to Understand the World
emeritus of physics at Princeton University: “It is an embarrassment that the dominant forms of matter in the universe are hypothetical.”42
Mark Gober • An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the Implications for Everyday Life
California Institute of Technology’s John Hopfield
Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
The vast mass of routinely rational human behavior doesn’t make good novels, but it is just such humdrum rational narrative that provides the background pattern that permits us to make sense, retrospectively, of the intriguing vagaries we encounter, and to anticipate the complications that will arise when the trains of events they put in motion col
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Yet the time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
Alan Lightman • Einstein's Dreams (Vintage Contemporaries)
Life is matter with intentionality.
Marcelo Gleiser • The Dawn of a Mindful Universe: A Manifesto for Humanity's Future
“Information can be considered as order wrenched from disorder.”