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One Quotes by Steven Johnson
- Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities—a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity—but they also share one other defining…
- Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water.
- Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel…
- Most new movements start this way: hundreds or thousands of individuals and groups, working in different fields and different locations, start thinking about change using…
- One of the stories I love is how Gutenberg’s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden people across Europe…
- Who is giving the orders to ants? No one. They are self-organizing. Each of our immune systems get smarter over the years as its biochemical…
- One of the founding moments of public health in the 19th century effectively poisoned the water supply of London much more effectively than any modern…
- In a peer network, no one is officially in charge. It doesn't have a command hierarchy. It doesn't have a boss. So, all the decisions…
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare