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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3e75fdb | 'Two things.' 'Name them. I am instructing you to name them.' 'I don't think you've been in love. Not recently, anyway. I'm not sure you remember what it's like. It compromises you. It takes over your body. Like a bareword. I think love is a bareword. That's the first thing.' Yeats didn't react. If anything, he seemed baffled. 'The second thing is I wouldn't characterize Harry as indecisive and untrained with weapons.' | barewords compromise lexicon love underestimation | Max Barry | |
| 576f058 | Bloody noses had made them friends, but giving sound to the bruised places in their hearts made them brothers. | Gloria Naylor | ||
| bd64152 | 'n tkwn fy'q ldhk l yDmn lk lnjH fy lHy@. fy lHqyq@, rbm y`yqk ldhk lfy'q fy lHlqt l'dn~ mn mjtm` yqdr lryDyyn wnjwm lsynm wlkwmydy wmDyfy ltlfz bshkl 'kbr. lm ySbH 'y nsn thry bkhtr` lnsby@ | Michio Kaku | ||
| d246fe5 | The word "robot" comes from the 1920 Czech play R.U.R. by playwright Karel Capek ("robot" means "drudgery" in the Czech language and "labor" in Slovak)." | Michio Kaku | ||
| 1e4856b | Our Sun is not Earth's true "mother." Although many peoples of Earth have worshipped the Sun as a god that gave birth to Earth, this is only partially correct. Although Earth was originally created from the Sun (as part of the ecliptic plane of debris and dust that circulated around the Sun 4.5 billion years ago), our Sun is barely hot enough to fuse hydrogen to helium. This means that our true "mother" sun was actually an unnamed star or c.. | mother-sun stardust sun supernova | Michio Kaku | |
| 2262ff2 | It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak. -SHAKESPEARE | Michio Kaku | ||
| f544f9e | PREFACE A New Look at the Legacy of Albert Einstein Genius. Absent-minded professor. The father of relativity. The mythical figure of Albert Einstein--hair flaming in the wind, sockless, wearing an oversized sweatshirt, puffing on his pipe, oblivious to his surroundings--is etched indelibly on our minds. "A pop icon on a par with Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe, he stares enigmatically from postcards, magazine covers, T-shirts, and larger-.. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 958b170 | the entire electromagnetic spectrum-- from radar to TV, infrared light, visible light, ultraviolet light, X-rays, microwaves, and gamma rays-- is nothing but Maxwell waves, which in turn are vibrating Faraday force fields. | Michio Kaku | ||
| bf32bbb | I canna' change the laws of physics, Captain! -SCOTTY, CHIEF ENGINEER IN STAR TREK | Michio Kaku | ||
| c8ffcb4 | The mind reels when we realize that, according to this interpretation of quantum mechanics, all possible worlds coexist with us. Although wormholes might be necessary to reach such alternate worlds, these quantum realities exist in the very same room that we live in. They coexist with us wherever we go. | parallel-worlds quantum-mechanics quantum-realities | Michio Kaku | |
| e810eee | I sometimes think about how easy it is for a nation to slip into complacency and ruin after decades of basking in the sun. Since science is the engine of prosperity, nations that turn their backs on science and technology eventually enter a downward spiral. | Michio Kaku | ||
| d2cd383 | This means that the two hemispheres may even have different beliefs. For example, the neurologist V. S. Ramanchandran describes one split-brain patient who, when asked if he was a believer or not, said he was an atheist, but his right brain declared he was a believer. Apparently, it is possible to have two opposing religious beliefs residing in the same brain. Ramachandran continues: "If that person dies, what happens? Does one hemisphere g.. | Michio Kaku | ||
| a457aa2 | Do we have enough food to feed the people of the world as they become middle class consumers? The hundreds of millions of people in China and India who are now entering the middle class watch Western movies and want to emulate that lifestyle, with its wasteful use of resources, large consumption of meat, big houses, fixation on luxury goods, et cetera. He is concerned we may not have enough resources to feed the population as a whole, and c.. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 51e6ab2 | When you listen to the beautiful sounds of stereo music, remember that you are listening to the rhythms of trillions of electrons obeying this and other bizarre laws of quantum mechanics. But if quantum mechanics were incorrect, then all of electronics including television sets, computers, radios, stereo, and so on, would cease to function. (In fact, if quantum theory were incorrect, the atoms in our bodies would collapse, and we would inst.. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 3f83096 | In Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers. So, if the river of time can be bent into a pretzel, create whirlpools and fork into two rivers, then time travel cannot be ruled out. | slavery-in-the-united-states time-travel | Michio Kaku | |
| b77d0be | As in the movie The Matrix, we might one day be able to download memories and skills using computers. | Michio Kaku | ||
| a5a8df1 | The quantum theory is based on the idea that there is a probability that all possible events, no matter how fantastic or silly, might occur. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 745b388 | In other words, a star is a nuclear furnace, burning hydrogen fuel and creating nuclear "ash" in the form of waste helium. A star is also a delicate balancing act between the force of gravity, which tends to crush the star into oblivion, and the nuclear force, which tends to blow the star apart with the force of trillions of hydrogen bombs. A star then matures and ages as it exhausts its nuclear fuel." | Michio Kaku | ||
| 864a081 | You might one day be able to send the experience of dancing the tango, bungee jumping, or skydiving to the people on your e-mail list. Not just physical activity, but emotions and feelings as well might be sent via brain-to-brain communication. | Michio Kaku | ||
| e08ba94 | For an animal, the past is largely a waste of precious resources, since it gives them little evolutionary advantage. But simulating the future, given the lessons of the past, is an essential reason why humans became intelligent. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 6e2144c | At first, it seems as if the existence of complex life forms on Earth violates the second law. It seems remarkable that out of the chaos of the early Earth emerged an incredible diversity of intricate life forms, even harboring intelligence and consciousness, lowering the amount of entropy. Some have taken this miracle to imply the hand of a benevolent creator. But remember that life is driven by the natural laws of evolution, and that tota.. | Michio Kaku | ||
| d399514 | Before an observation is made, an object exists in all possible states simultaneously. To determine which state the object is in, we have to make an observation, which "collapses" the wave function, and the object goes into a definite state. The act of observation destroys the wave function, and the object now assumes a definite reality." | observation reality | Michio Kaku | |
| a211830 | These computer simulations try only to duplicate the interactions between the cortex and the thalamus. Huge chunks of the brain are therefore missing. Dr. [Dharmendra] Modha understands the enormity of his project. His ambitious research has allowed him to estimate what it would take to create a working model of the entire human brain, and not just a portion or a pale version of it, complete with all parts of the neocortex and connections t.. | brain complexity computer-simulation | Michio Kaku | |
| ea27f40 | As all matter is crushed in the final moments before doomsday, intelligent life forms may be able to tunnel into higher-dimensional space or an alternative universe, avoiding the seemingly inevitable death of our universe. | Michio Kaku | ||
| 252538e | Some scientists have gone further and have speculated that there is a "God gene" that predisposes the brain to be religious. Since most societies have created a religion of some sort, it seems plausible that our ability to respond to religious feelings might be genetically programmed into our genome." | Michio Kaku | ||
| 704745a | Someday in the next thirty years, very quietly one day we will cease to be the brightest things on Earth. -JAMES MCALEAR | Michio Kaku | ||
| 057d63f | Two dates in one night - not bad at all! Hannah's frown changed to a grin as she lifted the lid and dropped her very favourite five-year-old pair of Nikes inside. | Joanne Fluke | ||
| b898245 | Hannah! You've simply got to stop finding bodies. I swear you attract them like a magnet. If you're not careful, everyone's going to get the wrong impression of you." - Delores Swenson" | Joanne Fluke | ||
| de7c091 | Ah but Art never fails anyone, magic and medicine may certainly fail, but never Art. | Jim Fergus | ||
| 099680b | The cornucopia that greets you as you enter the supermarket dwarfs anything that Louis XIV ever experienced (and it is probably less likely to contain salmonella). | Matt Ridley | ||
| f59c4e3 | Living in a big city can be compared to existing in a jungle. One becomes a creature of the environment. The response to the rhythms and choreography is visceral and before long a dweller's conduct is as distinctive as those of a jungle inhabitant. | Will Eisner | ||
| 6951c29 | Then, abruptly, it was his turn to feel ashamed, not only for having extended, however momentarily, the consideration of his sympathy to a Nazi, but for having produced work that appealed to such a man. Joe was not the early creator of comic books to perceive the mirror-image fascism inherent in his anti-fascist superman - Will Eisner, another Jew cartoonist, quite deliberately dressed his Allied-hero Blackhawks in uniforms modeled on the e.. | Michael Chabon | ||
| fcbbbbd | It was after a Frontline television documentary screened in the US in 1995 that the Freyds' public profile as aggrieved parents provoked another rupture within the Freyd family, when William Freyd made public his own discomfort. 'Peter Freyd is my brother, Pamela Freyd is both my stepsister and sister-in-law,' he explained. Peter and Pamela had grown up together as step-siblings. 'There is no doubt in my mind that there was severe abuse in .. | bias biased child-abuse child-rape child-sexual-abuse denial deny enabling-abuse fabrication false-memory false-memory-syndrome-foundation flawed fmsf freyd incest influence jennifer-freyd lies media objective paedophile pamela-freyd pedophile peter-freyd protecting-pedophiles psychology reality sadistic sex-abuse siblings story surprise truth underwager | Judith Jones Beatrix Campbell | |
| e53f610 | Ha! Listen, this guy walks into a bar, with a shopping bag, right? He sits down, puts the bag on the bar. Something in the bag is moving, and the bartender says 'Hey, buddy, no animals in here'. You with me, Jones?" "Yah." "The guy is looking real unhappy, totally down in the dumps, he reaches in the bag. He pulls out a brass lantern, then a small piano, a little stool, and finally a little guy in a tuxedo, about a foot tall. The little guy.. | Craig Alanson | ||
| f1ef0b5 | The technocratic illusion is that poverty results from a shortage of expertise, whereas poverty is really about a shortage of rights. The emphasis on the problem of expertise makes the problem of rights worse. The technical problems of the poor (and the absence of technical solutions for those problems) are a symptom of poverty, not a cause of poverty. This book argues that the cause of poverty is the absence of political and economic right.. | William Easterly | ||
| 544383b | Any factor that breeds polarization will worsen policy, and thus cause lower growth. | economy growth politics | William Easterly | |
| 253c972 | Then there appeared upon the earth a new kind of hominid, which refused to play by the rules. Without any changes in its body, and without any succession of species, it just kept changing its habits. For the first time its technology changed faster than its anatomy. This was an evolutionary novelty, and you are it. When | Matt Ridley | ||
| 2fb347a | Humanity is experiencing an extraordinary burst of evolutionary change, driven by good old-fashioned Darwinian natural selection. But it is selection among ideas, not among genes. | Matt Ridley | ||
| c05ba33 | It is my proposition that the human race has become a collective problem-solving machine and it solves problems by changing its ways. It | Matt Ridley | ||
| 3a46579 | Language is just as rule-based in its newest slang forms, and just as sophisticated as it ever was in ancient Rome. But the rules, now as then, are written from below, not from above. | Matt Ridley | ||
| b12959e | The genome is as complicated and indeterminate as ordinary life, because it is ordinary life. This should come as a relief. Simple determinism, whether of the genetics or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will. | humanity life randomness | Matt Ridley | |
| 47c9f8b | It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy,' said Albert Shanker, long-serving President of the American Federation of Teachers. | Matt Ridley | ||
| a7b2990 | I think knowledge is a blessing, not a curse. This is especially true in the case of genetic knowledge. To understand the molecular nature of cancer for the first time, to diagnose and prevent Alzheimer's disease, to discover the secrets of human history, to reconstruct the organisms that populated the pre-Cambrian seas - these seem to me to be immense blessings. | Matt Ridley | ||
| 347ec18 | There are two ways to tell the story of the twentieth century. You can describe a series of wars, revolutions, crises, epidemics, financial calamities. Or you can point to the gentle but inexorable rise in the quality of life of almost everybody on the planet: the swelling of income, the conquest of disease, the disappearance of parasites, the retreat of want, the increasing persistence of peace, the lengthening of life, the advances in tec.. | Matt Ridley |