Sublime

“How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature that interest him in the fortunes of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.”

University

She explained that an externality was not irrelevant, but, rather, uncounted—a consequence without a cost.

Traditionally, science seeks order by understanding the simplest parts of a system. How does a single gas particle behave given a certain temperature? Which gene in our DNA determines eye color? Scientists then try to develop theories that explain more general observations based on their detailed understanding of the individual parts.

This is a “rich get richer” sort of model in which the more a word is used in the past, the more likely it is that it will attract more use in the future.