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For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality.…
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You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment....
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Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not…
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Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.
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Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.
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The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.
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The universe is computing its own destiny.
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It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe.
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Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a…
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Tiny differences in input could quickly become overwhelming differences in output.... In weather, for example, this translates into what is only half-jokingly…
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Cyberspace, especially, draws us into the instant.
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The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of…
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I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of…
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I must only warn you of one thing. You have become a different person in the course of these years. For this…
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Our prayer will never grow obsolete, no matter what other ideas or philosophies may appear, or what other measures may be taken
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There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other…
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Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening…
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In 1963, the U.N. Security Council declared a voluntary arms embargo on South Africa. That was extended to a mandatory embargo in…
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Sugary drinks are blamed for increasing the rates of chronic disease and obesity in America. Yet efforts to reduce their consumption through…
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One measure of twentieth-century time is the supersonic three and three-quarter hours it takes the Concorde to fly from New York to…
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