Bryan Kornele

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“Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science hinges upon whether its conclusions resembe what actually happens.”
― Ian Stewart

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“He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.”
― Horace

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“There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numerals, and those who don't.”
― Ian Stewart, Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities

tags: binary-code, computers, humor

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“If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.”
― Ian Stewart, The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World

tags: complexity, science

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Bryan’s Groups

Science and Inquiry — 4511 members — last activity May 08, 2026 09:59PM
This Group explores scientific topics. We have an active monthly book club, as well as discussions on a variety of topics including science in the new ...more

Goodreads Librarians Group — 323767 members — last activity 4 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more

Underground Knowledge — A discussion group — 25398 members — last activity 2 hours, 14 min ago
This global discussion group has been designed to encourage debates about important and underreported issues of our era. All you need is an enquiring ...more

Science! — 107 members — last activity Jan 14, 2018 05:21PM
For the love of non-fictional science! The group will be dedicated simply to discussions pertaining to science books of any type. What is science? I ...more

Math is great! — 276 members — last activity Jan 12, 2017 10:57PM
A collection of books about math, from puzzles to history, to unsolved problems, math education, to just downright interesting stuff about math. Come ...more

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