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Resonant Thoughts

"This realistic image, however, does not catch at all what really is, but what should not be - death and misery - what should not exist, from our moral and humanistic point of view. And at the same tim…"

— Jean Baudrillard

Philosophy1929–2007

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"And now, at the end of the twentieth century, with the pressure of modern information and the advances of data processing, graphics is passing through a new and fundamental stage. The great difference…"

— Jacques Bertin

History1918–2010

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"A child saw a butterfly poised on a blade of grass; the butterfly had been made numb by the north wind. The child plucked the blade of grass, and the living flower that was at its tip, still numb, rem…"

— Jean-Marie Guyau

Philosophy1854–1888

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"Survival machines that can simulate the future are one jump ahead of survival machines that who can only learn of the basis of trial and error. The trouble with overt trial is that it takes time and e…"

— Richard Dawkins

Science1941

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