The second reason to abandon environmental religion is more pressing. Religions think they know it all, but the unhappy truth of the… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
China's economy became more complex. By now there is a large number of small- and medium-sized companies that work quite differently from… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
When scientists need to explain difficult points of theory, illustration by hypothetical example - rather than by total abstraction - works well… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
The primary consequence of the computational nature of the universe is that the universe naturally generates complex systems, such as life. Although… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
This tough-love, winner-take-all narrative dominating policymaking is far too limited a way to think about how a complex, modern, diverse economy like… — John Podesta Copy Share Image
I honestly would tell anyone young to start looking at stories and learning story, because I think that’s the next step after… — Bob Odenkirk Copy Share Image
If we are ever to construct a feminist movement that is not based on the premise that men and women are always… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
These anti-public intellectuals are part of a disimagination machine that solidifies the power of the rich and the structures of the military-industrial-surveillance-academic… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The constant drive for campaign dollars has distorted decision-making in Washington, DC, to the point where our systems can no longer effectively… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
You can have lots of feelings and have the same feelings over and over again. It isn't the recognizable feelings that make… — Eugene Gendlin Copy Share Image
Gender has always been considered a fact immutable. But we now know it's actually more fluid, complex, and mysterious. Because of my… — Geena Rocero Copy Share Image
The daily grinding of evolution, as accelerated by technology, churns out more and more complex organisms, with higher rates of energy use,… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
[G]enes make enzymes, and enzymes control the rates of chemical processes. Genes do not make "novelty seeking" or any other complex and… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Here are examples of real women who have done real things: good, bad, and in between. We're expanding not just the definition… — Anita Sarkeesian Copy Share Image
Humans and other animals experience love and fear, and form deep emotional bonds with cherished companions. We mourn when a close friend… — Gene Baur Copy Share Image
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
If globalization is to realise its potential as a force for good, we have to look more closely at the means by… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
You never want to be the worst bowler of the group-because then everyone treats you like you have cancer. "You can do… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
You are far more than your personality, more than your habits, more than your achievements. You are an infinitely complex human being… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
The way real memories work, from what we understand, is really complex. And it's an interconnection of different things and redundancy in… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
Artificial intelligence uses a complex set of rules - algorithms - to get to a conclusion. A computer has to calculate its… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Complex organisms cannot be construed as the sum of their genes, nor do genes alone build particular items of anatomy or behavior… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
It is absurd to imagine that any child will be able to earn a living, let alone contribute to resolving our world's… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Bernie's campaign was very principled in most regards, I think, you know, he certainly didn't go far enough in questioning the military… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The first big thing that I did with my dad was the bicycle sequence in "The Great Muppet Caper," where Kermit and… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
Our society and our organizations have learned to value masculine, 'quick-fix' traits in leaders. In a primitive society, a rural society, or… — Estelle Ramey Copy Share Image
Consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
You have weak artificial intelligence, which is a robot or a computer system that follows a list of protocols and it's like… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
In the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learning… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
If you become capable of relaxing the body voluntarily, then you will be able to help your mind relax voluntarily. Mind is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only as we… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Self-deport? What the heck does that mean? I have no doubt Hispanics have been alienated during this campaign. But now there's an… — Susana Martinez Copy Share Image
No president, not the smartest, best human being in the world can do it alone. You cannot take on this, the power… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite… — Weili Dai Copy Share Image
science has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
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