December 2011
“Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional...
– Lynn Margulis, American biologist and University Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1938-2011), What Is Life?, University of California Press, 2000. (via amiquote)
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Apart from the understanding that all natural systems are emergent, where all...
– Peter Joseph - The Zeitgeist Movement: The Emergent & Symbiotic Aspects of Natural Law (via mymindtank)
When life gets creative, it has a tendency to gravitate toward certain recurring...
– Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From, cited in ‘To understand is to perceive patterns’ - B. Fuller, Powell, Johnson, West, Kurzweil & video narration by J. Silva (via amiquote)
Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the...
– Chuang Tzu (via dewdropsoflove)
In every culture, the sky and the religious impulse are intertwined. I lie back...
– Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994 (via app1ejuice)
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Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy,...
– Albert Einstein
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The atoms, the molecules in your body, are traceable to the crucibles in the...
– Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I don’t think a person who hasn’t developed some mathematical sense is capable...
– Richard Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (via 14-billion-years-later)
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I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a...
– R. Buckminster Fuller (via app1ejuice)
The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.
– Rumi
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