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“Despite the barriers to communication, they have developed an idiolect of their own, mostly devoted to complaining.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin

“There are other reasons we use math in physics. Besides keeping us honest, math is also the most economical and unambiguous terminology that we know of. Language is malleable; it depends on context and interpretation. But math doesn’t care about culture or history. If a thousand people read a book, they read a thousand different books. But if a thousand people read an equation, they read the same equation.”
― Sabine Hossenfelder, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray

“The authors of a seminal paper on the symbiotic view of life take a clear stance on this point. “There have never been individuals,” they declare. “We are all lichens.”
― Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

“Your synapses store all your knowledge and skills as roughly 100 terabytes’ worth of information, while your DNA stores merely about a gigabyte, barely enough to store a single movie download.”
― Max Tegmark, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence