December 2011
1 post
November 2011
5 posts
“Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver...”
– Thomas Kuhn
“I happen to believe that a lot of scientific and rational premises are...”
– David Byrne
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and...”
– David Foster Wallace
October 2011
4 posts
“At present, we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling...”
– Paul Hawken
Slavoj Žižek addresses Wall St. occupiers →
We are all losers, but the true losers are down there on Wall Street. They were bailed out by billions of our money. We are called socialists, but here there is always socialism for the rich. They say we don’t respect private property, but in the 2008 financial crash-down more hard-earned private property was destroyed than if all of us here were to be destroying it night and day for weeks. They...
“I should like to recommend to [the reader]…that he gaze long and...”
– Salvador Dalí
September 2011
8 posts
“The intellectual picture of the atmosphere of craftsmanship from which the...”
– Walter Benjamin, “The Storyteller”
“Gone to sleep with the thought that my life should really begin tomorrow or the...”
– Salvador Dalí
“You know, it’s quite a job to start loving somebody. You have to have energy,...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre
August 2011
2 posts
2 tags
“People fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin - more...”
– Bertrand Russell
(via oncesingularity)
col·or [kuhl-er]
noun the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light.
June 2011
2 posts
“We will have to evolve a better world order than the one we have now, which I...”
– The Book Bench: Oh, the Places You’ll Go: E. O. Wilson at Chapel Hill : The New Yorker
“Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns
driven time and again...”
– Odyssey
May 2011
6 posts
“The catchphrase, “the revolution will not be televised,” was about...”
– Gil Scott-Heron
“One of the greatest achievements of the human mind, modern science, refuses to...”
– Roger Jones, Physics as Metaphor
“so foul a sky
clears not
without a storm”
– Shakespeare
natural selection: competition vs. coadaptation
The great insight of natural selection was published simultaneously by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace in 1858, Flannery pointed out, but their interpretations of the insight then diverged. Darwin’s harsh view of “survival of the fittest” led too easily to social Darwinism, eugenics societies, neo-classical economics, and an overly reductionist focus on the...
“Adolph Hitler read Nietzsche, mistook the diagnosis for prescription, and...”
– Robert Anton Wilson
April 2011
3 posts
“Our place in the universe, well, it is here. And that’s the place we have...”
– Werner Herzog, Connecting Science and Art, NPR
March 2011
12 posts
“Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.”
– John Berger
“The image is the mother of the word.”
– Hugo Ball
“He was playing his last game with the Moon, one of his tricks, with the Moon on...”
– Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics
“The ocean, king of mountains and the mighty continents
Are not heavy burdens to...”
– Gyalwa Gendun Druppa, the First Dalai Lama
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an...”
– John Steinbeck (via afternoonsnoozebutton)
Markets and Antimarkets in the World Economy... →
“Analytical techniques, by their very nature, tend to kill emergent properties, that is, properties of the whole that are more than the sum of its parts”
“We tend to uncritically assume systematicity, as when one talks of the “capitalist system”, instead of showing exactly how such systematic properties of the whole emerge from concrete historical processes. Worse...
“O, what a world of unseen visions and heard silences, this insubstantial country...”
– Julian Jaynes
Men of finance are men of faith
Even the hardest, coldest, most calculating men of finance are men of faith, men of credit, who believe in ghosts. They move about in a virtual reality where cash - which is itself, relative to the old mercantile system, but a sign - has all but disappeared, replaced by a stream of molecules, by electronic signals that say that certain monies have been paid or lost, grown or diminished, been...
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be...”
– { T. S. Eliot }
(via scienceisbeauty)
“You can hold back from the suffering of the world, you have free permission to...”
– Franz Kafka
“How on earth did anyone get the idea that people can communicate with one...”
– Kafka (via helloandroidface)
February 2011
3 posts
January 2011
6 posts
“He does not want philosophy to be a sitting judge but rather a wanderer and...”
– John D. Caputo on Derrida
“From this point of view, my entire research rests upon the postulate of an...”
– Foucault (via helloandroidface)
1 tag
“Strangely enough, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
