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I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

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Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes that information. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#evolving #existing #information #merely #physical

They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#called #death #definitely #freed #injured

The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way. ↗

— Hugh Lofting

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#better #books #conversation #man #mere

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#happiness #mere #others #some #stagnation

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him. ↗

— Arthur Symons

#before #faithfulness #him #mere #realist

To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill. ↗

— Patrick MacGill

#luck #merely #skill #soldier #word

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

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