Analytical


1984
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Outliers: The Story of Success
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
How to Lie with Statistics
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Freeman Dyson
The reason Dick's physics was so hard for ordinary people to grasp was that he did not use equations. The usual theoretical physics was done since the time of Newton was to begin by writing down some equations and then to work hard calculating solutions of the equations. This was the way Hans and Oppy and Julian Schwinger did physics. Dick just wrote down the solutions out of his head without ever writing down the equations. He had a physical picture of the way things happen, and the picture gav ...more
Freeman Dyson

My thoughts are not simply 'messed up' and waiting to be straightened out by learned doctors; they've already been analysed, every step of the way. I live with an internal philosophy lecturer allowing me to take nothing at face value, forcing me to question everything, casting doubt on all aspects of my human condition. ...more
Stephen Mullaney-Westwood, Paradise Shift

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