#del

According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#ago #around #billions #caused #collapsing

It's also a reasonable scientific program to look at the dynamics of the standard model and to try to prove from that dynamics that it is computationally capable. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#capable #dynamics #look #model #program

The growth model China has relied on for the last 30 years - one predicated on low-cost exports to the rest of the world and investment in resource intensive heavy manufacturing - is unlikely to serve it well in the next 30 years. ↗

— Gary Locke

#exports #growth #heavy #intensive #investment

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. ↗

— John Locke

#enable #ends #first #improvement #increase

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother. ↗

— John Lone

#become #eventually #father #friend #grew

One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model. ↗

— Lance Loud

#american family #became #family #gay #i

I never thought that I'd be a role model. Everyone kind of just made me a role model, and I hated that. ↗

— Demi Lovato

#hated #i #just #kind #made

I will tell them that you can work hard, you can improve your life and the lives of your children in one day when you deliver your youngest child to the university, you will look her in the eye and say, 'You will give back.' ↗

— Mia Love

#child #children #day #deliver #eye

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#black #delving #fascination #form #into

All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it. ↗

— James Lovelock

#climate #could #fast #hot #jump