#logical

Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt. ↗

— Jacque Fresco

#access #advanced #capabilities #could #create

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#logical #mathematics #poetry #pure #way

According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#applied #background #cannot #cultural #culture

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy. ↗

— David Brooks

#form #known #logical #lunacy #procedure

I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don't really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to my close friends, and they become more and more logical. I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#become #bit #close #close friends #down

Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition. ↗

— Eliza Farnham

#body #church #credited #drag #know

I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#ancestry #emotional #feel #get #i

What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#back #because #become #biological #bit

Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress. ↗

— Kim Campbell

#despite #go #high #jobs #lack

I had this spooky psychological thing about 'The Piano' before it began, which was how everybody was going to go nuts on the set. Because a film tends to set up the way people are going to behave. ↗

— Jane Campion

#because #before #began #behave #everybody