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"Not for audio! I made an attempt to listen through audio, but definitely Hegel requires close reading with plenty of frequent rereadings.
Difficult to grasp, complex text I've faced immediately in preface. On first glance the book is promising massive mind stretching with countless number of new synapses! I'm advancing unusually slowly..." — Nov 17, 2014 09:45AM
"Not for audio! I made an attempt to listen through audio, but definitely Hegel requires close reading with plenty of frequent rereadings.
Difficult to grasp, complex text I've faced immediately in preface. On first glance the book is promising massive mind stretching with countless number of new synapses! I'm advancing unusually slowly..." — Nov 17, 2014 09:45AM
“As far as quantum field theory is concerned, a human being or the center of a star isn’t all that different from empty space.”
― Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
― Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”
― Chapterhouse: Dune
― Chapterhouse: Dune
“It’s easy to miss something you’re not looking for. On a busy road, this could be fatal—look out for cyclists!”
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“The first period of excitement, which began with the Dartmouth meeting, was later described by John McCarthy (the event’s main organizer) as the “Look, Ma, no hands!” era.”
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“We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which furious party cries will be raised against anybody who says that cows have horns, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening mob with the news that grass is green.”
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