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It’s reasonable to wonder at what point all of this deception might become unstoppably detrimental to a species, and whether the dataome creates a unique vulnerability that evolution has yet to prune away.
Caleb Scharf • The Ascent of Information: Books, Bits, Genes, Machines, and Life's Unending Algorithm
Discovering the majority of the matter that makes up our universe after decades of confusing it for a vacuum should force us to ponder what else we can’t observe even though it exists.
Mo Gawdat • Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy
“What is sacred in science is truth,”
Paolo Giordano • How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness, and Community in Times of Global Crises - The Essay That Helped Change the Covid-19 Debate
To paraphrase Heisenberg, the sorts of answers that nature provides are determined by the sorts of questions we pose of her.
David Bentley Hart • The Experience of God
“One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. Never lose a holy curiosity. ... Don’t stop to marvel.”
— Albert Einstein
(As Dr. Fred Alan Wolf, a physicist popularly known as Dr. Quantum, says, “It boils down to this—the universe doesn’t exist without a perceiver of that universe.")
Pam Grout • E-Squared: Nine Do-It-Yourself Energy Experiments That Prove Your Thoughts Create Your Reality
As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force, which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the at
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