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“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”
Carl Sagan, Cosmos (free pdf) [+]
#CarlSagan #books #reading #quote
Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.Edward Teller (1908-2003) Hungarian-American theoretical physicist
Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics, ch. 10 (1991) [with Wendy Teller and Wilson Talley]
\#quotation #quote #complexity #human-nature #personality #physics #science #scientist #simplicity
More notes and sourcing on WIST:
Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.Edward Teller (1908-2003) Hungarian-American theoretical physicist
Beatrix von #Storch über Quotenirrsinn und Antifa
#Antifa = #Faschismus im Mäntelchen des #Antifaschismus #Quote
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy #civilization.
#software #coder #hacker #development #program #fail #quote #wisdom
#zenpencils #GavinAungThan #BillWatterson #quote #comic #cartoon
The quote used in the comic is taken from a graduation speech Watterson gave at his alma mater, Kenyon College, in 1990.
#zenpencils #GavinAungThan #BillWatterson #quote #comic #cartoon
The quote used in the comic is taken from a graduation speech Watterson gave at his alma mater, Kenyon College, in 1990.
#zenpencils #GavinAungThan #BillWatterson #quote #comic #cartoon
The quote used in the comic is taken from a graduation speech Watterson gave at his alma mater, Kenyon College, in 1990.
