Quote of the Day
If you enjoy programming, philosophy, math, or any number of geeky topics, you're in the right place. Every day, I'll post a random quote from my extensive collection of Kindle highlights. Quotes do not necessarily reflect my views or opinions. In fact, part of my epistemic process is to consume a wide variety of contradictory material.
07/15/2023
So the Big Bang doesn’t actually mark the beginning of our universe; it marks the end of our theoretical understanding.
— Sean Carroll, The Big Picture
07/14/2023
…the love of learning seeks something beyond the senses, while the love of spectacle is enticed by the senses themselves…
— Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought
07/13/2023
…the universe is messy. It is nonlinear, turbulent, and dynamic. It spends its time in transient behavior on its way to somewhere else, not in mathematically neat equilibria. It self-organizes and evolves. It creates diversity and uniformity. That’s what makes the world interesting, that’s what makes it beautiful, and that’s what makes it work.
— Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems
07/12/2023
For the desire to prolong youthfulness is not only a childish desire to eat one’s life and keep it; it is also an expression of a childish and narcissistic wish incompatible with devotion to posterity.
— Leon R. Kass, L’Chaim and Its Limits: Why Not Immortality?
07/11/2023
All that was needed was shrewd questioning, first of the patient and then of his mother, to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
1970 post articles, 394 pages.