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| 6d2dbdd | Acceleration means studying material that is part of the standard curriculum for older students. Enrichment involves learning information that falls outside the usual curriculum--say, | Scientific American | ||
| e11146a | Suppose you're meeting a friend in an American town that neither of you have been to before. You don't have a chance to plan a meeting place beforehand. Where do you go? | Randall Munroe | ||
| 999ccb9 | What, then, is the hallmark of science? Do we have to capitulate and agree that a scientific revolution is just an irrational change in commitment, that it is a religious conversion? Tom Kuhn, a distinguished American philosopher of science, arrived at this conclusion after discovering the naivety of Popper's falsificationism. But if Kuhn is right, then there is no explicit demarcation between science and pseudoscience, no distinction betwe.. | Imre Lakatos | ||
| 5d0228b | you know how I feel about the United Nations. From the beginning, it's functioned as a one-world-order organization whose sole function is to look down its collective nose at the one nation that funds it, the United States. The UN has advocated the transfer of wealth out of the United States, the elimination of international borders, the establishment of a single global currency, international gun control, and the elimination of American jo.. | Don Brown | ||
| e54ed4e | how tragic it was that so many Americans pictured Baghdad simply as one of those many dusty, war-torn Middle Eastern cities in the news, never knowing it was once the very heart of human scientific progress. | Dan Brown | ||
| 7561f5c | If a physics textbook operated on Descriptivist principles, the fact that some Americans believe electricity flows better downhill (based on the observed fact that power lines tend to run high above the homes they serve) would require the Electricity Flows Better Downhill Hypothesis to be included as a "valid" theory in the textbook--just as, for Dr. Fries, if some Americans use infer for imply or aspect for perspective, these usages become.. | David Foster Wallace | ||
| af51779 | It takes a heavy commitment to quality education for all to avoid that stratification of society, those needless degrees of separation. But even the present-day United States has lost what commitment it used to have to free education of high quality. Anyone reading the annual surveys of science literacy (another example: fewer than half of Americans know that the earth orbits the sun once a year) has to wonder how badly most people are goin.. | William H. Calvin | ||
| 731c8b3 | I don't really know why it matters so much. Ian could be better at talking than me, or cooking, or working, or housework, or saving money, or earning money, or spending money, or understanding books or films; he could be nicer than me, better-looking, more intelligent, cleaner, more generous-spirited, more helpful, a better human being in any way you care to mention...and I wouldn't really mind. Really. I accept and understand that you can'.. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 48e90d8 | Willow leaned forward and laid her head next to his on the pillow. "Is it too late to say I'm sorry, and that I love you more than anything else in this world?" "Oh God,no,love." With his good arm, he reached for the back of her head and brought her lips to his. They kissed as if they'd never get enough of each other, because they knew they never would. When Rider finally released her mouth, he smiled rakishly and pulled her hand under the .. | Charlotte McPherren | ||
| de67ec1 | When Leonardo was painting The Last Supper (fig. 74), spectators would visit and sit quietly just so they could watch him work. The creation of art, like the discussion of science, had become at times a public event. According to the account of a priest, Leonardo would "come here in the early hours of the morning and mount the scaffolding," and then "remain there brush in hand from sunrise to sunset, forgetting to eat or drink, painting con.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e06fdbf | Most notably, he was known for his willingness to share his blessings. "He was so generous that he sheltered and fed all his friends, rich or poor," according to Vasari. He was not motivated by wealth or material possessions. In his notebooks, he decried "men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of the desire for wisdom, which is the sustenance and truly dependable wealth of the mind."2 As a result, he spent more.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 9c202a8 | Leonardo at twenty-nine was more easily distracted by the future than he was focused on the present. He was a genius undisciplined by diligence. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 3a32e13 | Leonardo da Vinci liked to boast that, because he was not formally educated, he had to learn from his own experiences instead | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 3270738 | That goes a step too far, I think. Leonardo did not invent the scientific method, nor did Aristotle or Alhazen or Galileo or any Bacon. But his uncanny abilities to engage in the dialogue between experience and theory made him a prime example of how acute observations, fanatic curiosity, experimental testing, a willingness to question dogma, and the ability to discern patterns across disciplines can lead to great leaps in human understandin.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 9e59d2b | First and foremost is that creativty is a collaborative process. Innovation comes from teams more often than the lightbulb moments of lone geniuses. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c8f9a8a | We saw an example of this pattern-based analysis on the "theme sheet," where he made the analogy between a branching tree and the arteries in a human, one that he applied also to rivers and their tributaries. "All the branches of a tree at every stage of its height when put together are equal in thickness to the trunk below them," he wrote elsewhere. "All the branches of a river at every stage of its course, if they are of equal rapidity, a.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 9560d4e | While at Windsor Castle looking at the swirling power of the "Deluge drawings" that he made near the end of his life, I asked the curator, Martin Clayton, whether he thought Leonardo had done them as works of art or of science. Even as I spoke, I realized it was a dumb question. "I do not think that Leonardo would have made that distinction," he replied." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b3439db | On what may be the last page he wrote in his notebooks, Leonardo drew four right triangles with bases of differing lengths (fig. 143). Inside of each he fit a rectangle, and then he shaded the remaining areas of the triangle. In the center of the page he made a chart with boxes labeled with the letter of each rectangle, and below it he described what he was trying to accomplish. As he had done obsessively over the years, he was using the vi.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| d998e91 | Innovation occurs when ripe seeds fall on fertile ground. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| a402c9d | One purpose of these notebooks was to record interesting scenes, especially those involving people and emotions. "As you go about town," he wrote in one of them, "constantly observe, note, and consider the circumstances and behavior of men as they talk and quarrel, or laugh, or come to blows."1 For that purpose, he kept a small notebook hanging from his belt." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 505476a | He also noted that the veins of humans narrow with age, but the springs and rivers of the earth continually enlarge their channels.30 | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 40512cc | While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."3" | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 262d43b | At first Leonardo's procrastination led to amusing tales, such as the time the church prior became frustrated and complained to Ludovico. "He wanted him never to lay down his brush, as if he were a laborer hoeing the Prior's garden," Vasari wrote. When Leonardo was summoned by the duke, they ended up having a discussion of how creativity occurs. Sometimes it requires going slowly, pausing, even procrastinating. That allows ideas to marinate.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 59e2ed4 | So did Einstein, who wrote to another friend, "You and I never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born."5 We should be careful to never outgrow our wonder years, or to let our children do so." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| ac28302 | when he was engaged in blue-sky thinking, his science was not a separate endeavor from his art. Together they served his driving passion, which was nothing less than knowing everything there was to know about the world, including how we fit into it. He had a reverence for the wholeness of nature and a feel for the harmony of its patterns, which he saw replicated in phenomena large and small. In his notebooks he would record curls of hair, e.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| ac08581 | Leonardo's Vitruvian Man embodies a moment when art and science combined to allow mortal minds to probe timeless questions about who we are and how we fit into the grand order of the universe. It also symbolizes an ideal of humanism that celebrates the dignity, value, and rational agency of humans as individuals. Inside the square and the circle we can see the essence of Leonardo da Vinci, and the essence of ourselves, standing naked at the.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| d10e078 | The good painter has to paint two principal things, man and the intention of his mind," he wrote. "The first is easy and the second is difficult, because the latter has to be represented through gestures and movements of the limbs."44 He expanded on this concept in a long passage in his notes for his planned treatise on painting: "The movement which is depicted must be appropriate to the mental state of the figure. The motions and postures .. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 460bac1 | He had an imagination so excitable that it flirted with the edges of fantasy, which is also something we can try to preserve in ourselves and indulge in our children. | imagination science | Walter Isaacson | |
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| ae990ff | Kniga, kotoruiu vy chitaete, uzhe ne ta, kotoroi ona byla do togo, kak vy nachali ee chitat'. | David Mitchell | ||
| 6859340 | The Ticket-wallah, whose pimples bubbled as I watched, was as intractably dense as his counterpart in King's Cross. The Corporation breeds them from the same stem cell. | David Mitchell | ||
| 36dfd57 | I look forward to the day when we can meet one another in our true nakedness, stripped free of unresolved emotions, pain-induced projections, the distortions of duality. For too long we have been on opposite sides of the river, the bridge between our hearts washed away by a flood of pain. But the time has come to construct a new bridge, one that comes into being with each step we take, one that is fortified with benevolent intentions and au.. | Jeff Brown | ||
| a6793a5 | Is love partnership for everyone? Is it essential to a life well lived, or is that just a cultural myth? | Jeff Brown | ||
| 21f44a9 | It goes to show you. You can look for relationship but you can't look for love. | Jeff Brown | ||
| 0fccd71 | Excessive analysis perpetuates emotional paralysis. Knowing our issues is not the same as healing our issues. In fact, knowing is often a willful act, entirely incongruent with the experience of surrender required to heal. I have known many people who could name their patterns and issues with great insight, but their actions didn't change a bit. The key to the transformation of challenging patterns and wounds is to heal them from the inside.. | Jeff Brown | ||
| d2a7ac4 | When you see a new trail, or a footprint you do not know, follow it to the point of knowing. --SIOUX PROVERB | Jeff Brown | ||
| 4b760ba | I began to explore more body-centered approaches to emotional healing in the hopes of excavating deeper layers of unresolved material. The exploration began with a massage therapist who adeptly worked through layers of holding in my musculature for two hours per week. Although I was by no means muscle-bound, I was heavily armored, like an impenetrable fortress. As she peeled the armor, older and older memories emerged, muscles with a story .. | Jeff Brown | ||
| a432b42 | Normal. Now, there's a word. Healthy. A little better, but still stuck in the same conceptual morass. I prefer Authentic. Yes, that's it. Because it's subjectively defined. You know when you are being authentic. Authentic as the new normal. Authentic as the new healthy. If we start there, we have a chance of creating a healthy normal. Be real now. | Jeff Brown | ||
| 0bacfcc | Only a small few can hold the gate open when profound love enters. A blessed and courageous few. | Jeff Brown | ||
| d023e66 | Family took a lot more than genes to hold it together | Karen Traviss | ||
| a1cd30f | Mandalorians are surprisingly unconcerned with biological lineage. Their definition of offspring or parent is more by relationship than birth: adoption is extremely common, and it's not unusual for soldiers to take war orphans as their sons or daughters if they impress them with their aggression and tenacity. They also seem tolerant of marital infidelity during long separations, as long as any child resulting from it is raised by them. Mand.. | Karen Traviss | ||
| 0a6cc31 | Regular people said they couldn't tell the difference between one clone and another, did they? That was what came of spending too much time looking at faces and not enough wondering what shaped people and went on inside their heads. | Karen Traviss | ||
| 6204388 | And knowing my luck ... that'll be the Engineer sign for "Your mom's a skank." | Karen Traviss | ||
| 12bba6c | You never have perfect knowledge in combat, gentlemen. It's what we call the fog of war. You can either sit around worrying what's real and what's not, or you can realize the enemy hasn't got a clue either and fire off a few rounds of psychology. A truly great army is one that only has to rattle its saber to win a war. | Karen Traviss |