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Legacy: What the ...
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The Ascent of Man
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So dark matter is our frenemy. We have no clue what it is. It’s kind of annoying. But we desperately need it in our calculations to arrive at an accurate description of the universe. Scientists are generally uncomfortable whenever we must ...more
Kevin Mackey
It is amazing how important dark matter and dark energy are to our universe, particularly in relation to how absolutely little we know about them. I appreciate and respect the humility it takes for brilliant scientists to say, "We simply don't know, and we're frustrated, but we're trying to learn more."
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Yuval Noah Harari
“Algorithm’ is arguably the single most important concept in our world. If we want to understand our life and our future, we should make every effort to understand what an algorithm is, and how algorithms are connected with emotions. An”
Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

E.E. Cummings
“i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any---lifted from the no
of all nothing---human merely being
doubt unimaginably You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)”
E.E. Cummings, 100 Selected Poems

Brené Brown
“What we know matters but who we are matters more.”
Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.”
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“If you’ve invented something new but you haven’t invented an effective way to sell it, you have a bad business—no matter how good the product.”
Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

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