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James Gleick has 70 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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Thus the key to happiness lies not in changing our genetic makeup (which is impossible) and not in changing our circumstances (i.e.,…
— Sonja Lyubomirsky
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Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is…
— Paulo Coelho
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Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-genera ted robots will take over our world.
— Stephen Hawking
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Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change…
— Stephen Hawking
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Something about music urges us to engage with its larger context, beyond the piece of plastic it came on-it seems to be…
— David Byrne
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We all have spiritual DNA; wisdom and truth are part of our genetic structure even if we don't always access it.
— Surya Das
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For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and…
— Rachel Carson
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While our behavior is still significantly controlled by our genetic inheritance, we have, through our brains, a much richer opportunity to blaze…
— Carl Sagan
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We all want our genetic information. Why would you not want genetic information?
— Anne Wojcicki
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Information is crucial to our biological substance - our genetic code is information. But before 1950, it was not obvious that inheritance…
— James Gleick
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