"We say that time passes, time goes by,……" — James Gleick
"We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist."
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70 Quotes by James Gleick
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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 Exist Quotes
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The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
— Aristotle
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But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be…
— Aristotle
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Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for…
— Aristotle
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
— Karen Armstrong
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Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
— Mary Kay Ash
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I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent…
— David Attenborough
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist…
— Saint Augustine
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
— Saint Augustine
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Men exist for the sake of one another.
— Marcus Aurelius
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While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.
— Michele Bachmann
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A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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