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"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."

"PBS Nova Online: Galileo's Battle for the Heavens"

"The life of man in a state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

"If you can't be criticized, that's very dangerous."

"The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism."

"We find ourselves on the brink of a decision, a decision to break with the arcana of the one and the multiple in which philosophy is born and buried, phoenix of its own sophistic consumption."

"Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie."

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🇺🇸Buckminster Fuller

Philosophy

high-tech architecture

1895–1983

"Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts taken separately."

"The Nobel Prize in Physics 1909 was awarded jointly to Guglielmo Marconi and Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy"

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🇺🇸Sheldon Lee Glashow

Science

b. 1932

"The color gauge theory postulates the existence of eight massless particles, sometimes called gluons, that are the carriers of the strong force just as the photon is the carrier of the electromagnetic force."

"We're all looking for something, something to be."

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🇺🇸Ed Seykota

b. 1946

"Pyramiding instructions appear on dollar bills. Add smaller and smaller amounts on the way up. Keep your eye open at the top."

"The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant."

"Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful."

John Armstrong (poet)

Literature

1709–1779

"'Tis not for mortals always to be blest."

"We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it."

"Exploring is fundamentally human; we've done it for thousands of years. It's an expression of something that's the best in us."

"Science doesn’t give authentically access to the Real in the ontological meaning of the word, but only to the links between phenomena."

"If you really look at it, I was trying to sell a dream … There was very little I could put in concrete to tell these people it was really real."

"However doomed a man may be, he still has the great luxury of freedom of thought that can carry him soaring over the past and the future, the single attribute that can never be taken away by tyrant or circumstance."

"Once Steve Jobs goes away, which is probably not far away, then Apple will have to make a strategic decision on whether to open up the platform. Ultimately a closed system just can't go that far."

"on the basis of the types of inputs with which they must cope."

"When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice."

"Putin must be stopped. And sometimes only guns can stop guns."

"The overriding supremacy of the myth has created a widespread illusion that the theory of evolution was all but proved one hundred years ago . . . Nothing could be further from the truth."

🇺🇸Rita Levi-Montalcini

Science

1909–2012

"She had this feeling for what was happening biologically. She was an intuitive observer, and she saw that something was making these nerve connections grow and was determined to find out what it was."

"When we change the way we communicate, we change society."

"If you do not like it here, you can leave, but under the earth, not over it."

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🇺🇸Arnold M. Ludwig

Science

"An arresting book that casts political science out the window and explains leadership through comparisons with chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans."

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