#sci

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#ambivalence #been #fascinated #fragmented #i

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#conscience #men #most #opinions #others

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#condition #conscience #eternal #grows #life

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#atoms #belief #contingent #forces #heart

I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting. ↗

— James Lipton

#anybody #craft #driver #driving #fascinating

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce. ↗

— Friedrich List

#his #how #improvement #invention #learns

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#assured #broad #consciousness #consecrates #conviction

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

#basis #capacity #complex #computational #explanation

In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a research program. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#computational #hope #i #make #metaphor

Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#centuries #england #had #having #information