All major changes are like death, he said. You can’t see to the other side until you are there.
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We live in a world of frightful givens. It is given that you will behave like this, given that you will care about that. No one thinks about the givens. Isn't it amazing? In the information society, n...
There are no pirates in Port Royal
Religion explains what man cannot explain. But when I see something before my eyes, and my religion hastens to assure me that I am mistaken, that I do not see it at all . . . No, I may no longer be a...
Of course! he thought. He had touched the screen. It was a touch screen! The red lights around the edges must be infrared sensors. Tim had never seen such a screen, but he’d read about them in magazin...
Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.
In the lobby of the visitor center, the glass doors had been shattered, and a cold gray mist blew through the cavernous main hall. A sign that read WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH dangled from one hing...
In the 1980s, a few genetic engineering companies began to ask, What is the biological equivalent of a Sony Walkman? These
If you chart the gambler’s fortunes over time, what you find is the gambler wins for a period, or loses for a period. In other words, everything in the world goes in streaks. It’s a real phenomenon, a...
En cierto sentido, no estamos integrados más que por recuerdos. Nuestra personalidad se estructura a partir de recuerdos, nuestra vida está organizada en torno a recuerdos, nuestras culturas se erigen...
Do you want to understand how to swim, or do you want to jump in and start swimming? Only people who are afraid of the water want to understand it. Other people jump in and get wet.
Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.
Diego
Biography, observed Oscar Wilde, lends to death a new terror.
Atmospheric carbon dioxide is increasing, and human activity is the probable cause.
All major changes are like death, he said. You can’t see to the other side until you are there. And
All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.
Your eyes or changing the subject. You were forced to deal with that person’s behavior. The experience was, in the end, a loss of certain illusions. The world was not how you wanted it to be. The worl...
Name. I may not be, Cope said. Religion explains what man cannot explain.