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lisa • 11 cards
Potentialities for growth, then, are available in all directions—toward what has never been thought and back to what must be rethought.
Perry Zurn, Dani S. Bassett • Curiosity and Networks of Possibility

This paradox of comprehension was articulated explicitly by a great physicist of an earlier age: “Sir Isaac Newton, when asked what he thought of the infatuations of the people, answered that he could calculate the motions of erratic bodies, but not the madness of a multitude” (quoted from The Church of England Quarterly Review, 1850).
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
They had re-organized the Club as a kind of meta-investment fund and management bureau interested in projects that would, from the point of view of the mainstream, probably be considered fringe and ridiculed.
Bernardo Kastrup • More Than Allegory
Brain Pickings
Seth Kramer • 1 card