#logical

At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#present #theological #thinking #too #too much

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed. ↗

— Lawrence Clark Powell

#age #books #changed #children #doing

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time. ↗

— Richard Powers

#book #considered #form #head #hearing

My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible. ↗

— Richard Powers

#becomes #been #goal #invisible #mediation

Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#also #beauty #concerned #fashion #fashionable

I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideological principles at the foundation of its existence. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#disappeared #emerged #everyone #existence #foundation

I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces. ↗

— Dan Rather

#cave #down #forces #gets #great

They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

#biological #birth #broad #constantly #death

The only way an Iraqi biological agent would kill you is if it landed on your head. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#biological #head #iraqi #kill #landed

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#chronological #modernity #qualitative