"Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture……" — James Gleick
"Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility."
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70 Quotes by James Gleick
James Gleick has 70 quotes on this site.
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For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must…
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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…
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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…
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Tiny differences in input could quickly become overwhelming differences in output.... In weather, for example, this translates into what is…
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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…
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More Evolution Quotes
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
— Isaac Asimov
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As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of…
— David Attenborough
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Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like…
— David Attenborough
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
— Marcus Aurelius
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There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary…
— Edward Bach
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God's first creature, which was light.
— Francis Bacon
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Evolution isn't true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here?
— Stephen Baldwin
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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
— Henry Adams
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In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
— Bela Bartok
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If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
— Milton Berle
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Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is…
— Annie Besant
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